Announcements
Commercial announcements
ActiveState and O'Reilly join up
ActiveState and O'Reilly have announced a deal wherein O'Reilly's "Safari Bookshelf" will be bundled with ActiveState's Programmer Network offerings.Dell and Oracle power Louisiana's state-of-the-art justice system in Baton Rouge
Dell and Oracle have announced that they will be providing Linux systems for Louisiana's Nineteenth Judicial District Court, to be used for providing real-time access to public records.Hitachi Announces Strategic Partnership with Codehost Inc. (LinuxMedNews)
Hitachi and Codehost, Inc have announced a Linux-related partnership. "The Hitachi Internet Platform Business Unit, a part of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and Linux software developer Codehost, Inc. today announced a software development agreement for wireless tablets running the Linux operating system."
Record number of students in IBM's Second Linux Scholar Challenge
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi, India has been named the top winner of IBM's Second Linux Scholar Challenge. The university has been awarded a 16-node IBM eServer(tm) xSeries(tm) cluster running Linux. IIT received the highest overall average score among student winners from the 646 universities that enrolled in the challenge.JBoss Group distributes profits to developers
The JBoss Group has sent out a press release stating that it has distributed some of its profits to 37 developers who have contributed code to JBoss. "The Compensation Plan is our way of rewarding the open source JBoss developers, whether or not they work for JBoss Group, giving them a stake in the company's future, as well as offering them cash awards based on annual profit-sharing".
MySQL Version 4.0 Dubbed ''Production''; MySQL AB Confirms Version 4.0.12 Ready for all Application Areas
MySQL AB has sent out a press release stating that MySQL 4.0.12 is "ready for any MySQL deployment." "Even though proven development releases of 4.0 have been out for well over a year, we know that many MySQL users have been waiting for it to go production before upgrading. Now that it's been thoroughly tested by thousands of users, with no major bugs having been found in many months, we are confident that version 4.0 can be used reliably in any MySQL implementation..."
Red Hat Linux hard at work
Here are two press releases showing wins for Red Hat. The first is from RackSaver, which has provided a BladeRack system to the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University. The Mars Space Flight Facility's new BladeRack is a 50-node, dual AMD 2000+ processor-powered system, running Red Hat Linux Version 7.3.Dell and Oracle announced the delivery of integrated solutions to Louisiana's Nineteenth Judicial District Court. These Dell servers run Oracle9i Database with Real Application Clusters and Oracle9i Application Server on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server.
Red Hat's fourth-quarter results
Red Hat, Inc. has announced its fourth-quarter results. The bottom line is that the company essentially broke even on $25.9 million in revenue. The release also notes that Red Hat has now sold 16,500 "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS" subscriptions, and shipped 5,000 copies of the new enterprise workstation product.Linux gives your phone a voice!
Looking for a new phone? Zultys Technologies announced immediate availability of its ZIP 4x4 IP phone. "The ZIP 4x4 is built 100 percent on open technologies and runs on a highly stable real time Linux operating system. It is compatible with any IP telephony system using SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), with support for advanced features such as line-rate Ethernet switching, voice encryption, and five-way conferencing."
Wing IDE 1.1.9 Released (ZopeMembers)
Zope Members News has an announcement for version 1.1.9 of the Wing IDE for Python. "Wing IDE is a commercial development environment for the Python programming language. Wing's powerful editor, source browser, and graphical debugger speed Zope-based software development."
Upcoming Events
The UK Python Conference 2003
The UK Python Conference 2003 will be held in Oxford, England on April 2 and 3, 2003. Guido van Rossum will deliver the keynote speech.Tcl/Tk Conference CFP
A Call For Papers has gone out for the 10th annual Tcl/Tk conference. The event will be held from July 29 to Aug 2, 2003, papers are due in by May 15.Linux in Education Spring Conference
The Linux in Education Spring Conference will be held on April 5, 2003 in Grand Prairie, Texas.Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting (MozillaZine)
MozillaZine has posted the minutes of the March 19, 2003 mozilla.org staff meeting.O'Reilly Open Source Convention registration opens
Registration has started for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, which will be happening July 7 to 11 in Portland, Oregon.Mark-Jason Dominus coming to Washington, DC Perl M (use Perl)
Use Perl mentions that Mark-Jason Dominus will give a talk at the American Geophysical Union in Washington, D.C. on April 8.Zope3 UK Sprint (ZopeMembers)
The Zope 3 Sprint has been announced. The event will take place at the University of Bristol, England from April 12-15, 2003.Events: March 27 - May 22, 2003
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| March 27 - 28, 2003 | PyCon DC 2003 | (George Washington University)Washington DC |
| March 29, 2003 | First Hungarian PHP Conference | Budapest, Hungary |
| March 31 - April 2, 2003 | 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies(FAST '03) | (Cathedral Hill Hotel)San Francisco, CA |
| April 2 - 3, 2003 | The UK Python Conference | (Holiday Inn Oxford)Oxford, England |
| April 5, 2003 | Linux In Education Spring Conference | (Grand Prairie High School)Grand Prairie, Texas |
| April 10 - 12, 2003 | MySQL Users Conference & Expo 2003 | (Doubletree Hotel)San Jose, California |
| April 13 - 17, 2003 | RSA Conference 2003 | (Moscone Center)San Francisco, CA |
| April 14 - 15, 2003 | Samba eXPerience 2003 | (Hotel Freizeit)Göttingen, Germany |
| April 15 - 16, 2003 | LinuxUser & Developer Expo 2003 | Birmingham, UK |
| April 22 - 26, 2003 | Embedded Systems Conference(ESC) | (Moscone Convention Center)San Francisco, CA |
| April 22 - 25, 2003 | The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference | (Westin, Santa Clara)Santa Clara, CA |
| April 23 - 25, 2003 | PHPCon East 2003 | (Park Central Hotel)New York, NY |
| April 28 - 30, 2003 | Real World Linux 2003 | (Metro Toronto Convention Centre)Toronto, Canada |
| May 3, 2003 | International Conference on Software Engineering 2003 | Portland, Oregon |
| May 8 - 9, 2003 | International PHP Conference, 2003 | Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| May 11 - 14, 2003 | The International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications(HPCS 2003) | (Sherbrooke Delta Hotel)Quebec, Canada |
| May 11, 2003 | Yet Another Perl Conference, Israel(YAPC::Israel::2003) | (C.R.I.)Haifa, Israel |
| May 15 - 16, 2003 | YAPC::Canada | (Carleton University)Ottawa, Canada |
Software announcements
This week's software announcements
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