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LinuxWorld press releases

Here is a carefully-chosen subset from the large pile of press releases that were issued during the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo.

  • Addison Wesley has sent out a press release on the upcoming publication of Eric Raymond's The Art of Unix Programming.

  • AMD is showing off a Linux PDA at LinuxWorld. AMD has also announced a newer, faster Opteron processor. Also, SourceForge.net is now running on an Opteron system.

  • Dell has announced the sale of a 1450-node cluster to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

  • The Free Standards Group has announced that the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency is now requiring Linux Standard Base compliance for Linux-based products.

  • HP has announced a new set of cluster management utilities.

  • IBM has announced a whole new set of Linux customers, including Netflix, NYFIX, Marinalife, Softbank Uway, and others. The company is also expanding its Linux service offerings.

  • MontaVista has announced the availability of its "Carrier Grade Edition" distribution for IBM PowerPC processors.

  • MySQL AB announces that the SAP database will henceforth be known as "MaxDB."

  • Network Appliance and Red Hat have announced an alliance involving NetApp deployments in Linux environments and joint marketing efforts.

  • Pogo Linux and MySQL AB have announced the "DataWare 2600 server," said to be the first MySQL database appliance.

  • Progeny has announced "Atlas," a search tool for finding open source packages.

  • Red Hat has announced a new strategy with a focus on web applications. To that end, the company has joined the ObjectWeb consortium, will continue working with Tomcat and Jakarta, and will integrate Eclipse into its enterprise distributions.

  • Rogue Wave has released SourcePro C++ Edition 6 with support for Linux, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

  • SGI is testing out Altix 3000 systems with 128 processors.

  • Sistina has a deal with CommVault to integrate Sistina's software into CommVault's products.

  • Sistina has announced the integration of its Global File System into HP's cluster offerings.

  • Snapgear has launched a pair of new, Linux-based security appliances.

  • SurfControl is offering its email filter product on Linux.

  • SYS-CON Media has announced the launch of LinuxWorld magazine.

  • TimeSys has announced a deal with IBM to deliver TimeSys Linux RTOS on some of IBM's system-on-a-chip processors.

  • Trolltech has released Qtopia 1.7.

  • TSANet has announced a new "technical support community" involving BEA, Dell, EMC, HP, Network Appliance, Novell, SuSE, Unisys, VERITAS, and VMware. It's not entirely clear what this community will do.

  • The UK Free Software Network has announced that it is being sponsored by Digital Networks.

  • Ulticom, a telecom signalling software company, has joined OSDL.

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