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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements FFII: EU tells open source to start paying MS patent taxHere's a press release from FFII on the recent agreement between the European Union and Microsoft. "Neelie Kroes European Commissioner for Competition and Microsoft agreed that the royalties payable for the interoperability information will be 10,000 Euros, and that Microsoft can use its EPO software patents to charge 0.4 percent of all the sales of its competitors. The FFII says that these conditions effectively exclude open source competitors and add costs for all who wish to communicate with Microsoft products."
Commercial announcements ACCESS Connect Ecosystem Partner Program announces new membersACCESS CO., LTD. has announced seven new partners to the ACCESS Connect Ecosystem partner program. "ACCESS CO., LTD., a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile and beyond-PC markets, today reinforced its commitment to strengthening cooperation among mobile industry players with the addition of seven new partners to its ACCESS(TM) Connect Ecosystem (ACE) partner program. The ACE partner program is designed to create an ecosystem of world-class partners that will unleash the potential of the digital life generation by driving development and adoption of new mobile converged technologies and solutions. In the short eight months since its creation, the program has rapidly grown to include 73 members."
Collaborative Software partners with CollabNetCollaborative Software Initiative has announced a partnership with CollabNet. "Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI), which introduces a market-changing process that applies open source methodologies to business communities facing common IT challenges, today announced it is partnering with CollabNet, the leading provider of collaborative software development solutions for distributed organizations. CSI will use CollabNet's development platform to facilitate collaboration among its customers to share the cost of meeting the same compliance, regulatory and public service requirements."
Everex and Koolu announce partnershipEverex has announced a partnership with Koolu. "Everex, a world leader in the design and production of personal computers and Koolu, an organization renowned for their thin client devices and key members of the FOSS community, today announced a business alliance to further develop and promote open source, eco-friendly computing products for the mass market. "Everex is thrilled to be working with a high caliber company like Koolu," states John Lin, general manager at Everex. "With their expertise in software and service and our prowess in delivering mainstream computing products, we feel confident in furthering our many shared initiatives.""
Message Partners announces Email archival solutionsMessage Partners has announced a new Email archival solution for Linux servers. "Our email archive solution is suitable for compliance and data mining applications and offers extremely fast search and retrieval of email databases with many millions of records. Our solution integrates a number of leading open source technology components such as MySQL, Sphinx and others, but MPP is the heart of our solution. Our total email compliance solution offers email archival, content filtering, message stamping, surveillance, attachment controls and more. Our solution is not only compatible with Postfix, Sendmail and QMail, but can also archive MS Exchange and other Window's based systems."
Turbolinux does the Microsoft dealMicrosoft has announced that Turbolinux is the latest to sign a "collaboration" deal which includes, of course, "intellectual property assurance." "Delivering value requires a vision for how to design mixed-source solutions that tackle clear customer priorities and a framework for sharing intellectual property. When strong Microsoft customers are evaluating Linux, we want them to see Turbolinux as the distribution that works best with their existing Microsoft investments."
N810 device program opensNokia has announced a program to get its new N810 tablet into the hands of people who can make it better for a reduced price. "The call is addressed not only to open source programmers, but also to designers, documentation writers, community supporters, maemo evangelists, bloggers..." Up to 500 devices will be made available (for €99) under this program.
PIKA extends appliance offering to Linux communityPika Technologies Inc. has announced PIKA Warp for Linux. "PIKA Technologies Inc., a developer of media-processing hardware and software, today announced the release of its Appliance for Linux, the second member of PIKA Warp, its new Appliance family. It provides Linux computer telephony (CT) application developers with a smaller-sized and lower-cost alternative to traditional off-the-shelf computers and plug-in board network connectivity."
RedCannon Security adds secure OpenOffice accessRedCannon Security has announced KeyPoint Alchemy with support for OpenOffice.org. "RedCannon Security, a trusted provider of centrally managed, secure mobile-access solutions for the enterprise, today announced direct support for OpenOffice applications through KeyPoint enabled USB flash drives. The combined solution empowers mobile workers by allowing OpenOffice applications to be pushed to any USB stick, while ensuring through its KeyPoint solutions that only "trusted" or "locked-down" versions of OpenOffice applications are used."
Schwartz: ZFS Puts Net App Viability at Risk?Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz reveals Sun's plans in the Network Appliance patent suit. "In addition to seeking the removal of their products from the marketplace, we will be going after sizable monetary damages. And I am committing that Sun will donate half of those proceeds to the leading institutions promoting free software and patent reform (in specific, The Software Freedom Law Center and the Peer to Patent initiative), and to the legal defense of free software innovators. We will continue to fund the aggressive reexamination of spurious patents used against the community (which we've been doing behind the scenes on behalf of several open source innovators). Whatever's left over will fuel a venture fund fostering innovation in the free software community."
Announcing the LAPP Virtual ApplianceVirtual Appliance has announced a easy to install system with PostgreSQL, phpPgAdmin, Apache and Zeroconf. "This virtual appliance the easiest and fastest way to get PostgreSQL running. In addition to our usual Virtual Appliance features, this server includes... Our LAPP Virtual Appliance is a complete LAPP solution, is based on Ubuntu and is only 130MB to download for a full Ubuntu 7.04 Server Edition installation."
New Books GIS for Web Developers--New from Pragmatic BookshelfPragmatic Bookshelf has published the book GIS for Web Developers by Scott Davis.
iPod: The Missing Manual, 6th Edition--New from O'Reilly MediaO'Reilly has published the book iPod: The Missing Manual, 6th Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer with David Pogue.
Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt - new from Prentice HallPrentice Hall has published the book Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming by Mark Summerfield.
sendmail, 4th Edition--New from O'Reilly MediaO'Reilly has published the book sendmail, 4th Edition by Bryan Costales, George Jansen, Claus Aßmann, and Gregory Shapiro.
Tomcat: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition--New from O'Reilly MediaO'Reilly has published the book Tomcat: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition by Jason Brittain and Ian F. Darwin.
The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide--New from No Starch PressNo Starch Press has published the book The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide by David J. Perdue.
Upcoming Events Brian Behlendorf to launch Alfresco Community EventAlfresco Software, Inc. has announced the keynote speaker for the Alfresco North American Community Conference. "Alfresco Software, Inc., the first and leading provider of open source enterprise content management solutions, today announced that open source guru Brian Behlendorf will be keynote speaker at the inaugural Alfresco North American Community Conference in New York, on Wednesday, November 7, 2007. His presentation, "The Threat of Microsoft SharePoint to Open Source," will take place at 10 a.m. ET."
Events: November 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Audio and Video programs The debut of Tim Blechmann's re-reading albumTim Blechmann has released a downloadable audio work entitled re-reading under the Free Software Series label. "Debut album from the PD master Tim Blechmann (now living in Vienna). Many programmers try to show off the possibilities of their programs, instead Tim achieves the most focus and rigorous contemporary electronic music that I heard since Dion Workman."
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