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W3C Patent Policy: Latest News

The chairman of the W3C and three undisclosed participants made an exception proposal to bring back a type of RAND track/hybrid, allowing patented material into the W3C specifications.

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Linux for Astronomy V7,8,9

Volumes 7, 8, and 9 of the "Linux for Astronomy" software collection have been released. "Now in its 8th year, LfA is in use by both amateur and professional astronomers worldwide. The packages on LfA represent the state-of-the-art in Astronomical data processing, and are identical to the versions used on high end scientific workstations".

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Larry Ellison to talk at LinuxWorld

Just what everybody was waiting for: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has been added to the list of keynote speakers at LinuxWorld. The press release gives the details.

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Linux Stock Index for July 05 to July 10, 2002

LSI at closing on July 05, 2002 ... 23.05
LSI at closing on July 10, 2002 ... 22.08

The high for the week was 23.05
The low for the week was 22.08

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• HP (PALO ALTO, Calif.): HP Expands Industry's Broadest Range of Products and Solutions for Oracle9i Real Application Clusters.

• Kasenna, Inc. (MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.): Kasenna(TM), M.P. Technologies, Inc. and IBM Win Contract for Broadband Content Delivery System in New Japanese Hotel.

• MSC.Software Corporation (SANTA ANA, Calif.): MSC.Software Releases World's First High Performance Computing Linux Distribution for Intel Itanium 2-Based Systems.

• Opera Software ASA (Oslo, Norway): Linux Pioneer MandrakeSoft to Distribute Opera.

• SuSE Linux (Nuremberg, Germany): Expanded System Functionality for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 for IBM eServer iSeries and pSeries.

• Aladdin Knowledge Systems (CHICAGO, ILLINOIS): Aladdin Releases New Linux License Manager For HASP Software Security System .

• Atrenta Inc. (SAN JOSE, Calif.): Atrenta and Xilinx Partner to Deliver Predictive Analysis for Virtex Platform FPGAs.

• Biotique Systems, Inc. (EMERYVILLE, Calif.): Biotique Systems Announces Three Initial Customers for its BLIS Genomic Integration Solution.

• IBM: IBM WebSphere SDK for Web Services on Linux.

• InterWorking Labs (SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.): InterWorking Labs Announces ''Boreal, the SNMP Vulnerability Test Suite''.

• MigraTEC (DALLAS): MigraTEC Launches 64Express for the Itanium Processor Family; 64Express Dramatically Reduces the Risk, Time and Cost of 32-bit to 64-bit Migration Projects.

• Network Associates, Inc. (SANTA CLARA, Calif.): Network Associates Adds McAfee(R) Anti-Virus and Encryption Support For SuSE Linux.

• Open Clustering (Surrey, UK): Press Release: Announcing Shogun - Cluster Infrastructure Manager Software from Open Clustering.

• TrueTime (SANTA ROSA, Calif.): TrueTime Introduces Industry's First Comprehensive Network Time Synchronization Solution; New Domain II Software Suite Reduces Network Operation Problems.

• Zeus Technology, Ltd. (Cambridge, United Kingdom): Zeus and HP Announce Optimized Web Server for HP-UX and Linux Itanium 2 Platforms.

• Bull (PARIS): Bull Commits to the Intel Itanium Processor Family.

• Caldera International, Inc., Conectiva S.A., SuSE Linux AG, and Turbolinux, Inc. (LINDON, Utah, CURITIBA, Brazil, NUREMBERG, Germany, and BRISBANE, Calif.): UnitedLinux Announces Support for Intel Itanium 2 Processor.

• HP (PALO ALTO, Calif.): HP Announces Portfolio of Itanium 2-based Systems, Solutions and Services; New Offerings Deliver Optimal Customer Value with Breakthrough Performance and Price.

• Intel (SANTA CLARA, Calif.): Intel Begins Shipping Itanium 2 Processors.

• SGI (MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.): SGI Announces Commitment to Deliver Intel Itanium 2 Processor-Based Systems.

• Sealevel Systems (LIBERTY, S.C.): Sealevel Systems Introduces Universal Bus, Low Profile PCI Serial I/O Adapter.

• EPI Inc. (SUNNYVALE, Calif.): MontaVista Software and Embedded Performance Target Intel XScale Architecture; Bring Powerful Hardware-Based Debugging to Embedded Linux Applications.

• Intel Corporation (MUNICH, Germany): Intel-Based Systems Power Audi's High-Tech Car Safety Tests.

• Magic Software Enterprises (IRVINE, Calif.): Magic Software Launches Free Web Based Training Initiative for Magic eDeveloper v9.3; Latest Release Advances Web Services and Direct XML Development.

• MontaVista Software and Xilinx (SAN JOSE & SUNNYVALE, Calif.): MontaVista Software and Xilinx Announce Complete Linux Development Environment for Virtex-II Pro FPGA.

• Nokia and IBM (ESPOO, FINLAND AND ARMONK, N.Y.): IBM and Nokia Collaborate on Wireless Digital Media on Linux.

• Trans-enterprise Integration Corporation (NEW YORK): Trans-enterprise Joins Eclipse Board.

• Neoware Systems (KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.): Neoware Q4 Revenues Expected to Exceed Estimates.

• VA Software (FREMONT, Calif.): VA Software Promotes Ali Jenab to CEO; Founder Larry M. Augustin Steps Aside as CEO, Remains Chairman of the Board.

• LinuxWorld Conference & Expo (FRAMINGHAM, Mass.): Larry Ellison Added to Keynote Lineup At LinuxWorld Conference & Expo.

• StarNet Communications Corp. (SUNNYVALE, Calif.): StarNet Launches X-Solutions.com Interoperability Site.