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Enterprise organizations are tapping the benefits not only of using open-source software, but of contributing to it by using the Eclipse model. The Eclipse Swordfish, Tigerstripe, Open Financial Market Platform and Open System Engineering Environment projects are all based on code contributed by enterprises that use open-source technology.
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The KDE community has released KDE 3.5.10, a maintenance release for the KDE 3.5 series of the popular Linux desktop. Meanwhile, KDE developers continue work on bringing service-oriented computing to KDE, as well as a new Amarok media player and enhanced Qt support. KDE also has adopted the Free Software Foundation Europe's Fiduciary License Agreement.
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In a battle between two search engines, Google and Wikia Search are letting users rank search results. While Google's experiment is random, Wikipedia and Wikia Founder Jimmy Wales says Wikia Search is about building a community using simple Web services tools such as ranking and tagging to let users influence search results. Google has no timetable for its search ranking feature and isn't saying how it works.
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UPDATED: Cisco Systems acquired PostPath, a Microsoft Exchange e-mail storage competitor, and heads down the path of a big-time "co-opetition" to handle enterprise e-mail against a longtime partner, Microsoft. PostPath uses augmented open-source software and an optional appliance that plugs directly into a data center to offer a lower-cost, in-the-cloud e-mail server alternative to Microsoft Exchange. Exchange has long been known as one of the most complicated business software packages that IT personnel handle.
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Review: The Motorola U9, part of the mobile phone maker’s LiMo Phone line, impresses with a strong signal, good voice quality, a decent camera and MP3 player plus Java support. Linux Devices' Henry Kingman takes the Motorola U9 Linux Mobile phone through its paces.
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U.S.-CERT is warning of attacks targeting Linux-based infrastructures using compromised SSH keys. After access is gained to the system, local kernel exploits are used to gain root access. A rootkit is then installed to steal more SSH keys. The attack could be related to a flaw affecting Debian-based encryption keys discovered earlier this year.
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Mozilla is launching the experimental Ubiquity Web service under an open-source license, providing integrations with Google, Wikipedia, Yahoo, YouTube, Amazon.com, Digg and Twitter. The application runs in the Firefox Web browser, letting average Web users build mashups, which were previously consigned to folks in application development.
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In a nod to mobile and wireless security, Google Android advocates explain why the SDK for the forthcoming Android mobile operating system won't include Google Talk and Bluetooth wireless support. GTalkService just wasn't safe as a Remote Procedure Call, while the Bluetooth API just wasn't finished. Both are admitted failures to finish APIs that could have proved useful, but expect Android to produce a new RPC system and support Bluetooth in the future.
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Mozilla has revved up its SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine with a new just-in-time compiler. The TraceMonkey project boosts JavaScript performance by an order of magnitude. TraceMonkey is slated for release in Firefox 3.1 and is expected to also boost Canvas development.
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Just about the most serious breach of security possible at an OS vendor happened to this company. Red Hat is releasing updated OpenSSH packages to address the compromise of its internal systems.
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Big news in application development for the Google OpenSocial effort: An open-source programmer who does not work for Google, Facebook or MySpace created a sample social Web site that will let other programmers test and deploy OpenSocial applications in a safe environment. The site could give OpenSocial some needed momentum.
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Panasas ActiveStor, with its extremely fast parallel file system, is usually found in scientific data centers like that at Los Alamos National Laboratory. But now the system has been tailored for general enterprise use, with an aggregate bandwidth of twice that of the prior generation. It also uses less power and cooling than older systems.
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Microsoft will buy $100 million worth of Linux support certificates from Novell to redistribute to Microsoft Windows Server customers for Novell for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). Novell has promised "tools, support, training and resources" for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server users seeking "optimal interoperability" with Microsoft Windows Server.
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The pact between Microsoft and Novell, however, stirred up quite a controversy in the open-source community.
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Hyperic's CloudStatus cloud computing management service is now capable of monitoring performance in the Google App Engine service, which customers are using as the foundation for enterprise applications. Hyperic currently covers Amazon Web Services and Google but could expand to manage environments for Etelos, Coghead, Bungee Labs and Morph Labs.
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Ubuntu's deep software catalog, focus on usability and active community combine with long-term support to put desktop Linux's best face forward.
Review: Likewise Enterprise and its open-source sibling, Likewise Open, enable administrators to manage Linux, Macintosh and Unix machines through Microsoft's Active Directory and Group Policy.
Review: Firefox 3 should be welcome both for its many small usability improvements and for its under-the-covers Web rendering engine and security enhancements.
Review: OpenOffice.org 2.3 sports a nifty set of feature improvements, but the suite's sweetest features remain its low cost (free) and its strikingly broad platform support.
Review: The latest versions of fast-moving OpenSUSE, Ubuntu and Fedora make a strong case for Linux on the desktop, but there's lots of integration work to be done.
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