LBN Industry News Desk

PalmSource has joined MontaVista's Mobilinux Open Framework partner program and MontaVista has joined PalmSource's Palm Powered Mobile World (PPMW) program. Between them, PalmSource and MontaVista plan to help further accelerate the development of next generation Linux-based mobi... (more)

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) unveiled the OSDL Patent Commons Project this week at LinuxWorld. The consortium wants to be the central repository where software patents and patent pledges are housed for the benefit of the open source community and the industry. When ask... (more)

In what IBM called the "most significant realignment of its worldwide approach to Linux-related sales and marketing since it embraced Linux five years ago," the company has announced that it was aligning its Linux strategy by industry and building specific solutions "around each ... (more)

VMWare announced that will open its high-end ESX Server APIs and make the ESX source code available to partners.  The background to this story is apparently Computer Associates, whose next-generation Unicenter promises to manage all sorts of virtualized environments. It supposedl... (more)

SlickEdit v10  was awarded the 2005 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Product Excellence Award for "Best Application Development Tool"  this week in San Francisco. The award, managed by the editors of LinuxWorld Magazine in conjunction with the show's organisers IDG World Expo, was an... (more)

Appro International today announced that LinuxWorld Magazine in conjunction with the show’s organizers IDG World Expo has named the company's Appro’s XtremeBlade Cluster Solution as the winner of the “Best Clustering Solution” category for the Product Exce... (more)

"Scalix stands out with its clear market focus and an SMB focus, too," said LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards judge John H. Terpstra, as Scalix won the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award for 'Best Messaging Solution' here in San Francisco and LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. "Th... (more)

"I expect that Release 2 of the Oracle Cluster File System will be distributed with version 2.6.14 of the public kernel," said 2.6 Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton yesterday as Oracle announced at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco the general availability of OCFS... (more)

Xandros won a major award here at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo yesterday. The Xandros Desktop was chosen as the 'Best Desktop/Productivity/Business Application' in LinuxWorld's Product Excellence Awards, managed by the editors of LinuxWorld Magazine in close collaboration with ... (more)

Founded in 2002 by Bull, France Telecom and INRIA, ObjectWeb is a consortium of leading companies and research organizations from around the world who have joined forces to produce next generation of Open Source Middleware. ObjectWeb's goal is to provide Real-Time Enterprises with ... (more)

Alacos, enabler of organizations to transfer settings and application data from Windows desktops to Linux, will announce two new products: Linux Migration Agent Network Server Edition and Thin Client Migration Agent. Linux Migration Agent Network Server Edition simultaneously migra... (more)

At LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco this week, Arkeia is showcasing its data protection solutions supporting Novell SLES9, MySQL v4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Arkeia's Network Backup Solution will be demonstrated in the MySQL and Novell partner booths as the first profession... (more)

"The new H8QC8/E demonstrates our strong commitment to serving the AMD Opteron server market with superior, innovative product designs," said Dr. Tau Leng, director of marketing at Supermicro Computer Inc. as PathScale announced its certification of a new four-socket system board... (more)

Levanta has announced the general availability of the Intrepid M -- the world's first Linux management appliance. Through an intuitive interface, a Linux systems administrator with as little as two years of experience can use the Intrepid M to quickly deploy, rollback and migrate... (more)

The latest version of MKS Toolkit, version 9.0, significantly improved productivity on both 32 and 64-bit Windows operating systems, the company said, and provides native support for multibyte/Unicode character sets used around the world. MKS Toolkit 9.0 makes it possible for use... (more)

Linux Networx has announced the first annual Linux Networx User Group Conference to be held in Snowbird, Utah September 12-14.  A number of Linux Networx executives, including CEO Bo Ewald,  COO Dean Hutchings, Tom Quinn, Ben Passarelli, Jim Tucillo, Jason Lowry, Paul Piana, Rene... (more)

A group of students at the IT University in Copenhagen, Denmark, has launched what it hopes may become "The Linux of Beers" - it has created an "open-source" beer by publishing its recipe and brand under a Creative Commons license. Calling itself Vores Øl Group (Vores Øl is Danis... (more)

Mike Shaver, founding member, Mozilla project and technology strategist, Mozilla Foundation, will be delivering a keynote address at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco next month titled, 'Flash Point: Reigniting Web Innovation.' Shaver will explore the key issues at hand for those dr... (more)

Sun Microsystems has announced completion of  the acquisition of Tarantella, Inc. Sun's investment in Tarantella, the renamed former remnants of the original Santa Cruz Operation (SCO),  underscores the company's commitment to an Open Source desktop delivered through the network,... (more)

He did it while he was CEO of NCR Corp through cost-cutting. Can HP's new CEO Mark Hurd (pictured) now do it again at HP? 15,000 employees may find out today - the hard way. In a move expected to save as much as $1.5BN annually, Hurd is widely expected to announce today major cut... (more)