Red Hat Global Desktop to appear in November.
When Red Hat announced its upcoming Linux desktop at its annual summit in May, the company predicted the Red Hat Global Desktop would be out by September. Now, delayed a bit, the new desktop Linux will be appearing in November, company executives are saying. more...

Patent-troll company attacks Novell and Red Hat.
IP Innovation, a subsidiary of Acacia Technologies Group, has filed a patent infringement claim against Linux distributors Novell and Red Hat for violating U.S. Patent No. 5,072,412 for a User Interface with Multiple Workspaces for Sharing Display System Objects issued Dec. 10, 1991 along with two other similar patents. more...

Shuttleworth on Ballmer.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has once more claimed that Linux and open source violates Microsoft's intellectual property and patents. Canonical's CEO Mark Shuttleworth thinks Ballmer has it all wrong. more... and Why Ballmer's Protection FUD Matters.

Digium is doing things right.
Digium is the company behind Asterisk, the popular open source PBX. Digium was founded in 1999 by Mark Spencer, the creator of Asterisk. Since then, Asterisk has been deployed around the world on millions on computers. more... and SIP. Asterisk. FreePBX. Open standards, Open Source.

Lessons learned from open source Xara's failure.
On October 11, 2005, proprietary software maker Xara announced its plans to open the source code to its flagship vector graphics package Xara Xtreme, and with the help of community developers port it to Linux. Today, two years later, the project is stagnant and on the verge of irrelevance, primarily because the company couldn't figure out how to work with the open source community. more...

NetworkManager 0.7 feature list.
NetworkManager 0.7 will be available soon and will come along with a lot of features. Among them are static IPs, custom DNS servers and system wide configuration. However, the current development version still has some regressions and lacks support of a lot of encrpytion types. more...

Zend Advances PHP.
Zend's offerings include new products and expanded partnerships with IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. Zend Technologies is looking to extend the capabilities of the PHP Web development language as a key platform for business-critical Web applications. more...

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