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Non-Commercial announcements

OpenEMR adds Direct Claim Submission (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews reports on a new claim submission capability in OpenEMR. "OpenEMR, a free, open source practice management, EMR and billing application will soon support direct submission of payments to Medi-Cal and Medicare of California. OpenEMR currently supports two clearinghouses, ProxyMed and ZirMed and is able to submit claims in the HIPAA ANSI X12 format allowing it to support other clearinghouses or direct billing."

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Commercial announcements

Active Endpoints Announces Open Source BPEL Initiative

Active Endpoints, Inc. has announced the formation of ActiveBPEL, LLC, an open source organization intended to promote industry interest, education and development around the BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) standard.

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Merger Creates the UK's 'Biggest-Ever' Linux and Open Source Event

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo has announced a merger with LinuxUser & Developer Expo. An Expo is planned for October 6-7, 2004 at London's Olympia Exhibition Centre.

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HP and Mandrakelinux offer the 441 desktop

Mandrakesoft has sent out a press release (click below) describing the HP 441: a four-headed desktop system intended for use in schools in developing countries. By putting four monitors and keyboards onto a single box and running Linux, HP has kept the per-seat cost low enough, it hopes, to be interesting in the target market. See the "technical specifications" page for more information (and be amused that it tells us "HP recommends Microsoft Windows XP Professional").

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Mandrakesoft to migrate 1500 French government servers

Mandrakesoft has announced that it has been chosen by the French Ministry of Equipment to migrate 1500 servers over to the Mandrakelinux distribution. "Mandrakesoft, the premier European Linux player, was also chosen for deployment, training and support for its Linux solution."

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Mandrakesoft: half-year audited net result

Mandrakesoft has announced its audited financial results for the first half-year (October 2003 - March 2004). Compared to previous unaudited results (announced in April 2004) the net result has been increased by more than a half-million Euro.

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Novell joins SmartBUY

Novell announces that it has hooked into the U.S. General Services Administration's "SmartBUY" program, which should make it easier to sell Linux-based products to the government. "The sole provider of open source software in the SmartBUY program, Novell will offer three Linux bundles -- a desktop solution, a 'starter pack' server solution for smaller departmental deployments, and a more managed/full featured server solution for large environments."

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Red Hat to restate finances

Red Hat has abruptly announced that it will be restating its results for the last few years. The actual change looks like a relatively small tweak: subscription income will be recognized on a daily, rather than monthly, basis. That means that the company will not recognize a full month's income for the first month of an RHEL subscription unless that subscription actually starts on the first day of the month. The end result is the deferral of some revenue to the end of the subscription period.

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Rococo Software Releases Java/Bluetooth Developer Kit for Linux

Rococo Software has announced the release of the latest version of Impronto Developer Kit, a Linux-based Developer Kit for Java/Bluetooth applications.

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Announcing Specifix Inc.

Specifix Inc., a company founded by longtime Red Hat hacker Eric Troan and Cygnus manager Kim Knuttila, has announced its existence. Specifix is concentrating on helping companies create and maintain customized versions of Linux. They will be presenting their "Conary" system at OLS in what, one hopes, will not be the first marketing talk to be given in that setting.

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New Books

"Eclipse Cookbook" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Eclipse Cookbook by Steve Holzner.

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Resources

The LDP Weekly News

The July 7, 2004 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is available with the latest new documentation releases.

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Upcoming Events

UKUUG Linux 2004 Conference and Tutorials

The UKUUG Linux 2004 Conference & Tutorials will be held in Leeds, England on August 5-8, 2004.

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2nd Swiss Unix Conference

The 2nd Swiss Unix Conference has been announced. The event will take place on September 2-4, 2004 at the Technopark in Zurich, Switzerland. Thanks to Attila Kinali.

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Next Mozilla Developer Day Details (MozillaZine)

The next Mozilla Developer Day has been announced. The event will take place in Mountain View, California on August 6, 2004.

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Events: July 15 - September 9, 2004

Date Event Location
July 15, 2004Real-time and Embedded Systems WorkshopWashington, DC
July 19 - 20, 2004Italian Perl Workshop(Polo Fibonacci)Pisa, Italy
July 21 - 24, 2004Linux SymposiumOttawa, Canada
July 26 - 30, 2004O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2004(OSCON)Portland, OR
July 26 - 30, 2004IBM pSeries Technical ConferenceCairns, Australia
July 31 - August 2, 2004Vancouver Python WorkshopVancouver, Canada
August 2 - 5, 2004LinuxWorld Conference & Expo(Moscone Center)San Francisco, California
August 5 - 8, 2004UKUUG 2004 Linux Technical ConferenceLeeds, England
August 21 - 29, 2004KDE Community World Summit 2004(aKademy)(Filmakademie Ludwigsburg)Ludwigsburg (Stuttgart Region), Germany
September 2 - 3, 2004Python for Scientific Computing(SciPy)(CalTech)Pasadena, CA
September 2 - 4, 20042nd Swiss Unix Conference(Technopark)Zurich, Switzerland
September 9 - 10, 2004Linux Expo Shanghai(Shanghai Exhibition Center)Shanghai, China

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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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