Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
MySQL Builds Momentum in Telecom Sector
MySQL AB has announced increasing use of the MySQL dbms by the telecommunications industry. "MySQL AB, the developer of the world's most popular open source database, is seeing growing momentum in the UK-Ireland telecommunications sector with Tiger Communications, XOU Solutions and Anam Mobile leading a growing number of businesses adopting MySQL® open source database solutions. MySQL's success in the UK-Ireland telecom sector is reflected elsewhere in Europe. Alcatel, Nokia, Ericsson, Telio and Nortel have all selected MySQL products for important applications in the recent past."
Sun Celebrates Successful One-Year Anniversary of OpenSolaris
Sun Microsystems, Inc.has announced that in the one year since the OpenSolaris community went live, it has experienced tremendous growth in the open source community and customer adoption. "Since open sourcing the Solaris(TM) Operating System (OS) in June 2005, Sun has seen the OpenSolaris community grow to more than 14,000 members while Solaris 10 has exceeded 5 million registered license shipments -- more than its competitors have shipped collectively in the last 18 months, and more than all current Solaris OS versions combined."
Commercial announcements
Collax, Inc. Establishes New Worldwide Headquarters
Collax, Inc. has announced its first U.S. office in Bedford, MA. "With the opening of this office, Collax officially moves its international headquarters from Munich, Germany to the Boston area in preparation for the company's upcoming U.S. launch. Collax was founded in early 2005 by CEO Olaf Jacobi, CFO William Hite and CTO Boris Nalbach and since has received series A funding from Intel Capital, Atlas Venture Partners and Wellington Partners. Its Linux-based server solutions contain a suite of applications for security, networking and communication."
Ingres Initiates Partnership With BEA
Ingres Corporation has announced a partnership with BEA Systems, Inc. "... with the common goal of dramatically lowering costs and increasing flexibility by providing a proven, open source alternative for enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) development. As a result of the partnership, BEA Workshop Studio is designed to include support for Ingres 2006, the latest release of the enterprise open source relational database."
Jungo Releases Version 8.02 of WinDriver USB/PCI
Jungo Software Technologies Inc. has released version 8.02 of its driver development toolkit for multiple operating systems. "WinDriver 8.02 includes support for Windows Mobile 5.0 (added to the WinDriver for Windows CE driver package)and the latest Linux kernels 2.6.14 - 2.6.16. The WinDriver USB Device (Firmware Development Kit) now includes support for the Silicon Laboratories C8051F340 development board."
A Linux-based mobile phone consortium
Here's a press release stating that a set of cellular phone companies (Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic, Samsung, and Vodafone) has established a group to create "the world's first global, open Linux-based software platform for mobile devices." Interestingly, there are no distributors (embedded or otherwise) in this group. Wouldn't it be nice if owners turned out to be able to change the software on this "open" platform?Microsoft Establishes Customer Council on Interoperability
Microsoft Corp. has announced a new Interoperability initiative. "Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has formed the Interoperability Customer Executive Council to identify areas for interoperability improvements across its products and the overall software industry. Customers are working in increasingly heterogeneous IT environments and asking for a greater level of interoperability from their IT vendors. Microsoft is committed to building bridges across the industry to deliver products to its customers that are interoperable by design." The Linux issues addressed include supporting Linux on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2, a collaboration agreement with Sugar CRM Inc. and: "
dialogue about interoperability issues for Windows(R), Linux, UNIX and open-source software on its community Web site, Port 25."
Sun Adds Java DB and Swing Visual Designer to Java Development Kit
Sun Microsystems, Inc. has sent out an announcement about the upcoming Java SE 6 release. "Sun Microsystems, Inc., the creator and leading advocate of Java(TM) technology, today announced it will be incorporating Java(TM) DB, the Sun supported distribution of the open source Apache Derby Project, as well as the Group Layout component from the NetBeans(TM) GUI Builder code-named Project Matisse into the latest version of the Java(TM) Platform Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6) Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK). In addition, Sun announced new agreements with Founder Technology Group and Lenovo to ship the Java(TM)Runtime Environment (JRE) on their hardware."
Sun Joins the OpenAJAX Alliance and Dojo Foundation
Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced its joining of the OpenAJAX Alliance and the Dojo Foundation. "Sun plans to actively participate in these two communities to help drive open standards for AJAX programming and increase interoperability across AJAX technologies. As part of the OpenAJAX Alliance, Sun will collaborate with over 30 other member companies and organizations to identify and consolidate best practices, reach a consensus on programming models around a reference implementation for tools interoperability and generate wider AJAX adoption throughout the industry."
New Books
IPv6 Essentials, Second Edition - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book IPv6 Essentials, Second Edition by Silvia Hagen.Computer Security Basics, Second Edition - O'Reilly's Latest Release
O'Reilly has published the book Computer Security Basics, Second Edition by Rich Lehtinen, Deborah Russell and G.T. Gangemi, Sr.DNS and BIND, Fifth Edition - New From O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book DNS and BIND, Fifth Edition by Cricket Liu and Paul Albitz.Pragmatic Bookshelf releases "Rails Recipes"
Pragmatic Bookshelf has published the book Rails Recipes by Chad Fowler.Ubuntu Hacks - New From O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Ubuntu Hacks by Jonathan Oxer, Kyle Rankin, and Bill Childers.
Resources
Linux Brochure Project version 1.4.0 released
Version 1.4.0 of the Linux Brochure Project has been announced. "LBP is a GPL'd Linux advocacy and publicity project which documents key Linux information in a standard-sized brochure . A Spanish translation has been added for this release. French and Italian translations are also available."
Opera 9 Launches
The Opera 9 browser has been announced. "You can download it free in more than 25 languages for Windows, Mac, Linux and other platforms from www.opera.com. Opera 9 enhances the way you access, share and use online content by including innovative widgets - fun, small and useful Web programs - and support for BitTorrent(TM), the popular file distribution technology. Even while adding these improvements, Opera 9 maintains the security and speed millions of Opera fans have come to expect."
Contests and Awards
The Open Video Contest (Creative Commons)
Creative Commons has announced a contest for the creation of short Ogg Theora format videos. "Creative Commons and the Fedora Project have teamed up to promote open video by launching a contest. Join us for a chance to win a Fedora-branded Sony Camcorder. To make it fun for everyone, the first 150 submissions will receive a pair of handsome Fedora Flip-Flops." Entries are due by July 20.
Education and Certification
Pure Data Summer School 2006, London
The Pure Data Summer School 2006 training event will be held at the SPACE Media Arts in London, UK on July 17-28, 2006. "Pure Data is a free and open source real-time graphical programming environment used by artists to create a range of visual arts, theatre, dance, audio, installation, performance and media art works."
Calls for Presentations
aKademy 2006 - Call for participation
A call for participation has gone out for aKademy 2006. "aKademy is the annual meeting of the KDE community. The venue (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) and the time (Sept 23-30) have been confirmed and solidified." Abstracts are due by June 30.
The 2006 DC PHP Conference Call for Papers
A call for papers has gone out for the 2006 DC PHP Conference. The event takes place on October 18-20, 2006 in Washington, DC, submissions are due by July 7.
Upcoming Events
Registration opens for OOoCon2006
Registration is open for the OpenOffice.org Conference 2006 in Lyon, France. "If you want to attend to the OpenOffice.org Conferences 2006 in Lyon (France), you should register to help us organizing the conferences." The conference takes place on September 11-13, 2006.
Events: June 22 - August 17, 2006
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| June 22 - 23, 2006 | Ubuntu Developer Summit | Charles de Gaulle, Paris, France |
| June 22 - 23, 2006 | 3rd International GPLv3 Conference | Barcelona, Spain |
| June 22, 2006 | Collaborative Technologies Conference | (Seaport Hotel)Boston, MA |
| June 24 - 25, 2006 | Free and Open Source Conference(FrOSCon) | (St. Augustin)Bonn, Germany |
| June 24 - 30, 2006 | 2006 GNOME Users and Developers European Conference(GUADEC) | Catalonia, Spain |
| June 24 - 25, 2006 | PHP Vikinger | Skien, Norway |
| June 27 - 29, 2006 | Corporate Channel and Computing Expo(C3) | (Jacob K. Javits Convention Center)New York, NY |
| June 28 - 30, 2006 | GCC and GNU Toolchain Developers' Summit | (Ottawa Congress Centre)Ottawa, Canada |
| June 29 - July 2, 2006 | UKUUG Linux Technical Conference | (University of Sussex)Brighton, UK |
| June 30 - July 1, 2006 | WebTech 2006 | (Kempinski Hotel Zografski)Sofia, Bulgaria |
| July 3 - 4, 2006 | 3rd European Lisp Workshop | Nantes, France |
| July 3 - 5, 2006 | EuroPython 2006 | (CERN)Geneva, Switzerland |
| July 4 - 8, 2006 | 7th Libre Software Meeting(LSM) | (Nancy 1 University)Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France |
| July 5 - 8, 2006 | V Jornades de Programari Lliure | Barcelona, Spain |
| July 8 - 9, 2006 | PostgreSQL Anniversary Summit | Toronto, Canada |
| July 10 - 11, 2006 | Global db4o User Conference(dUC) | (Imperial College, South Kensington)London, UK |
| July 13 - 14, 2006 | Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment(DIMVA) | Berlin, Germany |
| July 15 - 16, 2006 | Crystal Space Conference | (University of Aachen)Aachen, Germany |
| July 16 - 19, 2006 | 2nd International Symposium on Free/Open Source Software, Technologies and Content(FOSSTEC 2006) | Orlando, Florida, USA |
| July 19 - 22, 2006 | Ottawa Linux Symposium 2006(OLS 2006) | Ottawa, Canada |
| July 22 - 23, 2006 | LugRadio Live | (Wolverhampton University)Wolverhampton, UK |
| July 24 - 28, 2006 | O'Reilly Open Source Convention(OSCON 2006) | Portland, Oregon |
| July 29 - August 3, 2006 | Black Hat USA 2006 Briefings and Training | (Caesars Palace)Las Vegas, NV |
| August 4 - 6, 2006 | DEF CON 14 | (Riviera Hotel)Las Vegas, NV |
| August 4 - 6, 2006 | Wikimania | (Harvard Law School)Cambridge, MA |
| August 4 - 6, 2006 | Vancouver Python Workshop | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| August 8 - 10, 2006 | Flash Memory Summit | (Wyndham Hotel)San Jose, CA |
| August 14 - 17, 2006 | LinuxWorld San Francisco 2006 | (Moscone Center)San Francisco, CA |
Audio and Video programs
SAMBA with Jeremy Allison, Mad Penguin's Adam Doxtater (Novell)
Novell has posted a podcast with Jeremy Allison. "The legendary Jeremy Allison graces Novell Open Audio's studio to tell Erin and Ted about the SAMBA project, and why he decided to join Novell. Adam Doxtater from madpenguin.org tells us why he is one of SUSE Linux's newest converts."
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