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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Akaza Research awarded NIH grant (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews reports on the winning of an NIH grant by Akaza Research. "Akaza Research, LLC announced today that it has been awarded a two-year Phase II SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue development of the open source clinical trials data capture system, OpenClinica. The objectives of the project include further development of the OpenClinica open source community, addition of new features, such as calendaring, coding, and adverse events to the core OpenClinica platform, and implementation of data exchange capabilities."
Marcus Rex to be CTO at the Linux FoundationThe Linux Foundation has announced that long-time SUSE manager Marcus Rex will be the group's new chief technology officer. It's a one-year position, after which Mr. Rex will go back to Novell. "As CTO, Rex will lead all technical initiatives for the Linux Foundation, including oversight of the Linux Standard Base and other workgroups such as Open Printing. He will also be the primary technical interface to LF members and the LF's Technical Advisory Board who represent the kernel community."
The all-new Linux Fund Visa Card launches todayA new Linux Fund Visa Card has been announced. "The Linux Fund began in 1999. Since then, the organization has handed out over one-half million dollars in grants to Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) projects like Blender, FreeGeek and the WikiMedia Foundation. "We don't represent a wealthy patron or a long-dead industrialist," says Mandel. "Our donations come from engineers, managers, and ordinary working geeks who use The Linux Fund Visa in the course of everyday living. "The way it works is actually quite cool, Just by using The Linux Fund Visa card, ordinary geeks can participate in serious philanthropy, at no out-of-pocket cost to themselves. Each time a cardholder uses their card, a donation is made to The Linux Fund by the card issuer, U.S. Bank."
SugarCRM goes to GPLv3SugarCRM has announced that the upcoming 5.0 release of its "community edition" CRM software will carry the GPLv3 license. This is a big improvement over the current license which contains badgeware provisions and was never accepted as open source. "Sugar Community Edition 5.0 is expected to be released in September, and introduces innovative platform features, new CRM functionality and community development tools."
Commercial announcements Entrust contributes essential PKI technology component to open-source communityEntrust, Inc. has announced the release of its public key infrastructure technology to the open-source community. "To support that goal, the layered security expert is contributing public key infrastructure (PKI) technology to the open-source community through Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the Mozilla Foundation. Specifically, Entrust will supply its certificate revocation list distribution points (CRL-DP) patent 5,699,431 to Sun under a royalty-free license for incorporation of that capability into the Mozilla open-source libraries."
Ingres Joins the Eclipse FoundationIngres Corporation has announced that it has become a member of the Eclipse Foundation. "According to Emma McGrattan, Ingres senior vice president of engineering, "Ingres has a large application development community using a variety of application development languages across a host of operating system platforms. Eclipse encompasses the diverse needs of Ingres developers by providing an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), a rich and robust development and debugging platform for building the most sophisticated enterprise applications.""
ITema releases enterprise service bus for PHP developersITema, Inc. has announced the release its Blackbird PHP enterprise service bus software under the GPL. "Blackbird allows PHP developers to rapidly develop loosely coupled software applications, allowing them to leverage PHP's development speed and ease of use for application integration tasks. It also integrates easily with Apache ServiceMix by sharing a common message queue server, Apache ActiveMQ. This allows developers to mix PHP and Java components with minimal effort."
OpenLogic introduces new development and production support packagesOpenLogic has announced two new open-source support development and production support packages. "OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced the availability of two cost-effective support packages for enterprises using open source software. These new packages are designed to cover the full spectrum of open source support needs, from development and QA to staging and production."
Passport Software releases PBS Manufacturing Series for LinuxPassport Software, Inc. has announced the release of PBS Manufacturing Series Version 11.5 for LINUX. ""For companies who have chosen Linux for their operating system, software solution choices have been slim. PBS Manufacturing changes that", says Ian Creswell, Passport's Manufacturing Product Manager. "For Linux users, PBS Manufacturing combined with Passport Business Solutions offers a complete, fully integrated business solution that brings the sophisticated tools of bigger ERP systems to the small to mid-size company for better control of their manufacturing, make-to-order, or job shop operations" continues Creswell."
Xandros acquires ScalixXandros has announced the acquisition of Scalix. "Today Xandros, the leading provider of intuitive end-to-end Linux solutions and cross platform management tools, announced the acquisition of Scalix, the premier award-winning Linux e-mail, calendaring and messaging company."
New Books Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects -- New from No Starch PressNo Starch Press has published the book Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects: GIMP for photography, special effects, and design by Michael J. Hammel.
Contests and Awards The 2007 Best of SugarCRM awards programSugarCRM Inc. has announced the first annual Best of SugarCRM Award program, which recognizes best-in-class SugarCRM implementations. "SugarCRM is now accepting nominations for the award through Monday, August 6, 2007. Finalists will be publicly announced on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco. The awards ceremony dinner will be held in conjunction with the CRM Acceleration Summit in New York City on Monday, August 20, 2007."
Surveys Study shows enterprises evaluate on Windows, deploy on LinuxAlfresco Software, Inc. has announced its global survey of trends in the use of open source software in the enterprise. "The Alfresco open source barometer survey, conducted April through June 2007 using opt-in data provided by 10,000 of the 15,000 Alfresco community members, showed that Windows is increasingly a popular evaluation platform for open source software but most enterprises use Linux when they go into production. The survey also asked users about their preferences in operating systems, application servers, databases, browsers, and portals to capture the latest information in how companies today evaluate and deploy open source and legacy proprietary software stacks in the enterprise."
Event Reports Mandriva and Intel Showcase classmate PC at aKademyMandriva and Intel demonstrated the classmate PC at the aKademy conference. "Intel's Latin America Linux Strategic Program Manager Sulamita Garcia and Mandriva's KDE developer Helio de Castro were participating at aKademy 2007, KDE's annual meeting of the KDE community, demonstrating the flexibility and the specialized educational interface of Mandriva Linux on the Intel-powered classmate PC in the "Edu and School" presentation sessions."
PgDay Portland, A huge success!The Portland, Oregon PgDay event was a success. "On July 22nd, PostgreSQL.Org held a single day conference in Portland Oregon preceding OSCON 2007. This conference, although short notice was a huge success. We had solid attendance from new and old community members.Notable talks for me was Theo Schlossnagle's talk on Solaris and PostgreSQL. It was enlightening to see where PostgreSQL is lacking, (places I didn't realize) and how Theo has worked around the problems to provide a quite decent set of tools for Solaris and PostgreSQL."
Upcoming Events Red Hat To Showcase Open Source Enterprise Solutions At GITEX 2007Red Hat has announced that it will be attending the 27th Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX). At the event, Red Hat will present its latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to its Middle Eastern partners and to potential customers.
Software Freedom Day 2007Software Freedom Day 2007 has been announced. "September 15th marks Software Freedom Day, the world's largest celebration and outreach effort about why transparent and sustainable technologies like Free & Open Source Software are so important. Community groups in more than 80 countries organise local activities and programs on Software Freedom Day to educate the wider public about free software: what it is, how it works and its relationship to human rights and sustainability. We already have over 140 teams around the world registered: join them in spreading the word!"
Events: August 2, 2007 to October 1, 2007The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Web sites Introducing beautifulcode.oreillynet.comO'Reilly has announced the launch of the beautifulcode.oreillynet.com web site. "The new, easy-to-use site gives the public the opportunity to discuss the book's projects and to contribute information about other projects that illustrate coding artistry. The site is designed to build community among new and experienced innovative programmers and designers who are inventing and creating elegant coding solutions now and in the future."
Staging Site for Firefox Support Knowledge Base Ready (MozillaZine)MozillaZine reports on the launch of the Firefox Support knowledge base. "Chris Ilias writes: "The staging site for the new Firefox Support knowledge base is now up and running, and were looking for people to help contribute content. We have an initial list of articles we would like created for the alpha version, so feel free to create an account, assign yourself to an article, and create it. Our primary goal, right now, is core content."
TechBase Hits 1,000,000 (KDE.News)KDE.News reports that the TechBase site has reached a milestone. "KDE's new technical documentation library, TechBase, hit an important milestone today when it served up its one millionth page. In step with the KDE 4.0 development cycle, TechBase is rapidly maturing into a central hub for high-level technical information related to KDE and the Free software desktop."
Audio and Video programs ELCOT's success story on OSS migration on youtube.comKrishna Pagadala reports on the availability of a YouTube video on the migration to OSS by India's ELCOT. "After a year of experimentation and implementation, ELCOT made a corporate video on how it migrated to linux, notably suse linux which had stolen the hearts of all ELCOT's officials."
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