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Mandriva UK Launched as Sole Partner for Mandriva S.A

Mandriva UK Limited was launched on May 23rd 2007 as the sole UK partner for Mandriva S.A, offering Mandriva Linux operating systems.

The company's target areas are corporate applications and solutions to individuals, educational institutions, public and private organizations, ISVs and OEMs all over the United Kingdom. The goal …

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MySQL Helps Power Wikipedia's Phenomenal Growth

MySQL AB has published a case study on how Wikipedia uses the MySQL database to manage its massive popularity. The winner of the 2005 'MySQL Application of the Year' Award, Wikipedia is currently featured in MySQL's 'Twelve Days of Scale-Out' educational initiative. The campaign highlights how many of the world's …

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MySQL AB and Zimbra Announce Scale-Out Partnership

MySQL AB announced that Zimbra is using the MySQL database to deploy millions of email accounts as part of its rapidly growing open source messaging and collaboration system.

The campaign is live at www.mysql.com/scaleout. Zimbra is a leader in open source, next-generation messaging and collaboration software, supporting …

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Alcatel-Lucent Chooses MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition for XDMS System

MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, announced that Alcatel-Lucent has successfully implemented its MySQL Cluster Carrier Edition database for its highly mission-critical XDMS application. The global telecommunications leader has implemented an IP-based service architecture in order to deliver a full-featured, high performance, and highly available …

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Open Country Licenses Source Code for Linux Systems Management Platform

Open Country, a next-generation systems management software company, has begun licensing the source code to its flagship system management platform, OCMTM. This allows system and device manufacturers, system integrators, VARs, service providers and independent software vendors to significantly increase the value, differentiation and manageability of their offerings while reducing development …

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McObject's eXtremeDB 3.1 Compatible with MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition 4.0

McObject announced that eXtremeDB 3.1, the latest release of its in-memory embedded database for real-time, high availability applications, has been tested as compatible with MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) 4.0. eXtremeDB version 3.1 targets telecom and datacom embedded software with index functions for more efficient communications-related …

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Sirius Corporation Sponsors DebConf7 Conference

Sirius Corporation, a leading Open Source services group in Europe, has been announced as a sponsor for DebConf7, which will take place from June 17th to 23rd in Edinburgh, Scotland. The conference is expected to attract developers, contributors and enthusiasts to one of the premier Linux networking events this year …

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LinuxIT Launches New Support Service for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

London, UK, 22nd May 2007 - LinuxIT today announced the launch of its new Support Service for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, completing the company's portfolio of support offerings specifically tailored to Linux operating systems RHEL, SuSE, Ubuntu and CentOS. Professional support offerings from LinuxIT have been developed in response to customers' …

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Technalign and Automatix Announce Availability of DataArchitect 4.0 in Automatix

Technalign, Inc. and Automatix have announced that TheKompany, producers of high-quality open source and commercial Linux software, are pleased to announce the availability of DataArchitect 4.0 in Automatix. Business applications in Automatix supports not only the Technalign Pioneer community, but also the MEPIS, Debian, Kubuntu, and Ubuntu communities. DataArchitect …

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MySQL and Red Hat Partner to Simplify Open Source Software Adoption for Businesses

MySQL AB has partnered with Red Hat to offer its premium MySQL Enterprise subscriptions through the new Red Hat Exchange (RHX). Designed to simplify the lives of corporate database developers and DBAs, MySQL Enterprise is a comprehensive set of production-tested software, proactive monitoring tools, and support services. RHX helps business …

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MySQL Partners with LINBIT to Offer High Availability Solutions

MySQL AB has announced a joint partnership and services agreement with LINBIT to promote and support DRBD for MySQL Enterprise. This partnership allows MySQL AB to offer direct support for this proven, low-cost solution for attaining 'Four Nines' and greater uptime for transactional database applications in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL …

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Squish 3.2: Advanced Extensibility for Cross-Platform Automated UI Testing

froglogic GmbH has announced version 3.2 of Squish, a leading cross-platform automated UI testing tool for Qt, Web/HTML/AJAX, Java AWT/Swing, Java SWT/Eclipse RCP, Four J's, Tk and XView applications. The main new feature is advanced extensibility, which allows users to customize Squish in many more …

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SYSGO Ahead of North American Commercial Vendors in Linux for Intelligent Devices Survey

SYSGO was ranked first among commercial embedded Linux suppliers in the recently-published LinuxDevices.com seventh annual Embedded Linux Market Survey. This survey also showed Linux continuing to grow as the dominant embedded OS for 32 and 64-bit designs (approaching 50%), and that over 60% of developers surveyed look to commercial …

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Microsoft's Plan to Extend its Desktop Monopoly through Platform Addiction

On April 19th, Bill Gates announced a plan to enlist the help of developing nations in a barely-concealed attempt to get the next billion PC users hooked onto Microsoft software. Under the guise of trying to bridge the digital divide, Microsoft will instead aim to extend its desktop monopoly by …

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TotalView Technologies Announces Availability of MemoryScape 2.0

TotalView Technologies has announced the availability of MemoryScape 2.0, a new version of its powerful memory debugger that enables memory debugging of MPI and remote applications. The product is designed to be an integrated part of the software development process and allows developers to identify, inspect and resolve difficult …

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MySQL Conference & Expo Recognizes Top Community Contributors and Partners

The 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo kicked off with a keynote by CEO Marten Mickos exploring the impact of open source software on traditional enterprise software and individual developers. The conference features over 140 technical and IT business sessions and more than 66 exhibitors. Highlights of the keynote include MySQL's financial …

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MySQL Enterprise Connection Alliance (MECA) Makes it Easier for Companies to Reach & Interact with Millions of Open Source Database Users

MySQL Enterprise Connection Alliance (MECA) is a new business partner program launched by MySQL AB, aimed at making it easier for resellers, software vendors, hardware companies, and IT service providers to offer their database-related solutions to the millions of MySQL users worldwide. The MECA program offers special access and discounts …

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GNOME Foundation Launches Mobile & Embedded Initiative

The GNOME Foundation has announced the creation of the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative (GMAE), a software platform for user experience development across a wide range of device profiles. The initiative aims to advance the use, development and commercialization of GNOME components as a mobile and embedded user experience platform.

Participants …

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RedHawk Linux 4.2: A New Version of Concurrent's Real-Time Operating System for Mission-Critical Applications

Concurrent announced the release of RedHawk Linux 4.2, a new version of its popular real-time operating system for mission-critical applications.

The latest Intel quad-core processors are supported, providing more computing power in smaller packages and expanded performance scalability. RedHawk Linux 4.2 also supports Infiniband, optional global file system …

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Ubuntu 7.04 Released: Secure, High Performance, Free Desktop and Server Editions

Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today the release of Ubuntu version 7.04. The award-winning Linux distribution for the desktop, laptop, thin client and server brings together the best of open source software every 6 months. Ubuntu 7.04 desktop edition includes a ground-breaking Windows migration assistant …

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