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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements BEA and Apache Software Foundation Announce Project Beehive BEA Systems, Inc. and the Apache Software Foundation have announced the acceptance of Project Beehive as an open-source project in the Apache community. Apache Beehive is based on the runtime application framework in BEA WebLogic Workshop, aims to be an easy-to-use, open source foundation for building enterprise Java and service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications.
Bull Joins the Open Source Development Labs The latest Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) member is Bull HN Information Systems Inc., according to this announcement.
New Creative Commons licenses released The Creative Commons project has announced the 2.0 release of its set of licenses. "Unlike the 1.0 licenses, the 2.0 licenses include language that makes clear that licensors' disclaim warranties of title, merchantibility, fitness, etc. As readers of this blog know by now, the decision to drop warranties as a standard feature of the licenses was a source of much organizational soul-searching and analytical thinking for us." There have been several other changes; see the announcement for details.
OSDL on kernel patch provenance Yesterday, Linus posted a request for discussion on the idea of a "developer's certificate of origin" for kernel patches. Today, the Open Source Development Labs has announced that it is helping to implement the process. "OSDL has committed to providing resources to ensure that contributions made to the kernel adhere to the DCO and the process improvements. The Lab will review the content of the contributions to confirm that submissions to the kernel have been signed off by contributors in accordance with the DCO. In addition, OSDL plans to launch an educational campaign for developers and end users on the DCO and the process improvements."
Plone Foundation Created The Plone Foundation has been announced. "The Plone Community today announced the formation of the Plone Foundation, an organization committed to elevating the use of the Plone open source content management software, expanding its integration in software solutions and increasing collaboration and development with the open source community and industry."
Commercial announcements CA Outlines Open Source Strategy Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) made several announcements this week. These include the release of Ingres and KGEM (Kernel Generalized Event Management) under an open source license, the introduction of a document management solution that uses the Plone Engine, and collaborations with JBoss and Zope.
FreeMED Software Support Services (LinuxMedNews) Two FreeMed Software support companies have been formed in New York and Massachusetts. "FreeMED Software Foundation, Inc. announced the formation of two companies to help physicians, specialists, nursing homes and small hospitals implement, maintain and migrate to Linux and FreeMED Software."
Gupta Technologies Opens SQLBase 9.0 for Linux Gupta Technologies has announced a beta version of its SQLBase 9.0 database for Linux.
Microsoft's Appeal Denied Lindows, Inc. has announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied Microsoft's petition for interlocutory appeal in its ongoing trademark litigation against Lindows, Inc.
Thousands of New Partners Join Novell in Linux Push Novell, Inc. has announced software developers, channel partners, and independent software and hardware vendors are supporting the company's Linux strategy.
Novell Reports Financial Results for Second Fiscal Quarter 2004 Novell, Inc. has announced financial results for its second fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2004. Jack L. Messman, Novell chairman, president and chief executive officer said. "We are encouraged that NetWare(R)-related revenue in the quarter declined only 2% from the year ago period, or a 5% decline after adjusting for foreign currency effects. This figure compares to the prior year's decline rate in NetWare-related revenue of 12%, after adjusting for foreign currency effects. We believe this slowing of the rate of NetWare-related revenue decline reflects a favorable response from our customers to our Linux* strategy."
Nuxeo releases CourierCPS, the generic solution for mail management in CPS 3 Nuxeo has announced the release of their CourierCPS mail management solution for Collaborative Portal Server 3. "This software module allows organisations to dematerialize from end to end the processing chain for incoming and outgoing mail."
Oracle claims world's largest Linux-based development organization Oracle has sent out a press release claiming to have the largest Linux-based development organization in the world. "The company began the global initiative last year with the migration of 5,000 developers to Linux, and anticipates that by the end of 2004, its core development team worldwide will be leveraging the operating system. With Linux, Oracle developers have a broader choice of hardware platforms and can use cheap, fast hardware in a grid environment to help increase productivity and enhance testing capabilities."
Symbio Technologies Uses Old PC's as Diskless Thin Clients Here's a press release from Symbio Technologies, a company that's turning old PCs into Linux thin clients. "Just remove the hard drive, CD-ROM, and floppy disk drives and connect the reborn PC to a server loaded with our Symbiont Management Suite and you'll have a robust, new computer that runs as fast as your server..."
Xteam Software International Limited to Acquire Software Businesses of Beijing Development Xteam Software International Limited has announced that it will acquire the software business of Beijing Development. "Xteam has established a strong presence in Beijing thanks to its leading edge Linux technology and R&D expertise. The new entity, leveraging on both strong positions in software in Beijing, will capture a dominant market share in Beijing to provide Linux operating systems and software solutions to government authorities in four key sectors: social security, labour security, e- government and e-education."
New Books "Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook" Released by O'Reilly O'Reilly has published the book Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook by James Elliott. Hibernate is an open-source object/relational persistence and query service for Java.
Resources Austin Group Minutes of the May 20 Teleconference The minutes are available for the May 20, 2004 Austin Group Teleconference.
The LDP Weekly News The May 19, 2004 edition of the LDP Weekly News has been published, take a look for the latest new documentation.
The LDP Weekly News The May 26, 2004 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is available with another selection of new and updated documentation.
OSIA position paper on SCO v. IBM Open Source Industry Australia has released a position paper intended to guide Australian companies in deciding what to do about licensing demands from the SCO Group. Click below for the announcement; the paper itself is available in PDF format. "To any Australian organisation which receives any request for licence payment from The SCO Group, we recommend that you do not respond in any way, seek legal advice, taking this document to your lawyer, and also submit the received documentation from SCO as evidence to the Australian Competition & Consumer COmmission (ACCC)."
Translate.org.za Newsletter May 2004 The May, 2004 Translate.org.za Newsletter has been published. "Translate.org.za is a project translating Opensource software into all of South Africa's official languages and offering assistance and creating tools to help other language teams."
Upcoming Events Linux Professional Institute Offers Its First Certification Testing at CeBIT America (eBCVG.com) eBCVG.com reports on the LPI certification program at the CeBIT America conference on May 25-27 in New York City. "¨For many years LPI has been a regular participant in the prestigious international CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany. However this is the first time we have participated in this North American event and we are proud to be invited to attend. This demonstrates yet again the growing importance of Free and Open Source Software, particularly Linux, to the enterprise business community, ¨ said Evan Leibovitch, President of LPI."
IDA's Open Source Competence Workshop The IDA Workshop on OSS Competence in the Public Sector will be held at the LinuxTag Conference and Exhibition in Karlsruhe, Germany on June 23, 2004. Thanks to Sofia Segedy.
Registration for German Perl Workshop 2004 is open (use Perl) Registration for the 2004 German Perl Workshop has been announced. "The registration for the German Perl Workshop 2004 from Tuesday, June 29th to Thursday, July 1st 2004 at the Barbara-Künkelin-Halle Schorndorf (near Stuttgart) is now open."
YAPC::NA::2004 Only 22 Days Away (use Perl) Use Perl has a reminder for the upcoming YAPC::NA Perl conference.
Tenth VistA Community Meeting (LinuxMedNews) LinuxMedNews has an announcement for the Tenth VistA Community Meeting. The event will be held at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington on June 17-20, 2004.
IBM pSeries Technical Conference IBM will be holding a Technical Conference on the IBM pSeries platform in Cairns, Australia on July 26-30, 2004. "This technical conference not only covers pSeries and AIX, but has some 30+ Linux sessions as well, most of which include hands-on labs. Speakers come from IBM themselves, Red Hat and SuSE."
Events: May 27 - July 22, 2004
Mailing Lists The GNOME devel-announce-list The new GNOME devel-announce-list has been announced. "Today we present the Fresh New Taste of devel-announce-list! This is a new, low-volume, moderated list for GNOME development related announcements and information"...
Web sites Linux-on-Hynix page launches (LinuxDevices) LinuxDevices reports that a new web site and mailing list has been created to support Linux on ARM processors from Hynix.
Software announcements This week's software announcements Here are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:
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