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The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit
organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced
the results of its 2009 Technical Advisory Board (TAB) election, which was
held at the Japan Linux Symposium in Tokyo.Nov. 11, 2009 07:02 AM EST Reads: 637
Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), the leading global provider of embedded virtualization software for mobile phones and broadband Internet devices, today announced that ST-Ericsson, a world leader in wireless platforms and semiconductors, has selected OK Labs as its mobile virtualization par...
LynuxWorks(TM), Inc., a world leader in
embedded software, today announced the availability of its board support
package (BSP) for two additional motherboards from Applied Micro Circuits
Corp. (AMCC), a global leader in embedded processing solutions.
MontaVista Software has announced the next release of their Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) Linux with over 30 different Linux Support Packages (LSP’s) available immediately. CGE 5.1 adds support for next generation 4G wireless networks including LTE and WiMAX, and includes full integratio...
LynuxWorks has announced that FFI (the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment) has selected LynxSecure in support of a program in the field of classified information handling and information flow between security domains. FFI selected LynxSecure due to its unique ability to run Windo...
NETGEAR, Inc., has announced the launch of RangeMax Wireless-N Gigabit Router with USB (WNR3500L), a full-featured Wireless-N router offering high-performance wireless range and speed along with Gigabit Ethernet ports and ReadyShare(TM) USB storage access. The RangeMax Wireless-N Gigab...
Novell has announced The Burton Corporation moved its mission-critical applications from UNIX* to SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server from Novell to improve system uptime and reduce overall server-related costs by 80 percent. Burton migrated to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in 2008. Burton's ...
The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, has announced that DeviceVM has become its newest member. DeviceVM is the creator of the award-winning Splashtop(TM) instant-on platform, which is powered by Linux. Splashtop allows use...
Meshcom Technologies, Inc. today announced its new brand name - EmbedOne
- for its new embedded Linux line of business. At the same time, new publicly
available suite of software and services for the embedded Linux community was
announced.
The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, has announced that Citrix Systems has become its newest member. Citrix is a provider of virtualization; cloud computing, and software as a service (SaaS) offerings for companies worldwi...
This white paper sheds light on the various architectural components of UniPortal. It is an application portal that provides an SOI-compliant command-line interface (CLI) or web services interface (WS-I), facilitating application-oriented job submission, monitoring and control to multi...
Nearly half of all IT decision makers, developers, and architects report that they use Microsoft .NET as their application technology platform on which to run their applications. Until now the .NET Framework has only been available on Windows. The ability to run ASP.NET and other .NET ...
The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit
organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced
the formal launch of Linux.com. The
Foundation took over stewardship of the site in March, at which time it
began soliciting input from the community to help define ...
MontaVista Software has announced that its new MontaVista Linux 6 is optimized for OMAP35x processors from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). MontaVista Linux 6 is a revolutionary new approach to embedded Linux development that is comprised of Market Specific Distributions (MSD), the...
Enea has announced an innovative offering to jump start development of embedded Linux projects where performance and unique requirements are of central importance. The Enea Embedded Linux Project Framework (ELPF) is an entirely new approach that offers the core components, tools and se...
This guide from thawte will introduce you to our Starter PKI Program – it explains how it works as well as the benefits it offers. This guide will also point you to a dummy company on our website where you can “test drive” the Program. 
This educational webinar from Novell will provide ISVs with an overview of the UNIX application porting process to SUSE Linux Enterprise 11. This tutorial will cover the required steps to successfully port your applications to SUSE Linux Enterprise including Application Scoping, Portin...
This webinar from Novell will provide Linux ISVs an overview of the Linux Standard Base (a working group of the Linux Foundation) and a tutorial on how to easily port applications to SUSE Linux Enterprise using such tools as the Linux Standard Base Database Navigator and Linux Standard...
As with earlier Shuttle Mini-PCs with pre-installed Linux operating system, the X270V uses openSUSE - now in version 11. All PC functions are configured after the first start-up in only a few steps and can then be used immediately. Expansion with program packages is possible at any tim...
Ulitzer content is grouped in 25 distinct subjects from "Aerospace and Defense" to "Travel and Hospitality." Each subject group offers an unlimited number of topics, and each topic may contain thousands of peer-reviewed feature stories, bylined articles, blog posts, news, reviews, comm...
Red Bend Software has announced the availability of release 4 of its vDirect Mobile device management client software. Red Bend's vDirect Mobile is an independent device management client that is interoperable with any DM server, supporting standards from the Open Mobile Alliance. vDir...
Kontron has announced its AdvancedMC packet processor IO modules - the Kontron AM42xx Intelligent IO series that are available now for full production orders. The Kontron AM42xx AdvancedMC modules have two key advantages - one, performance: Based on the OCTEON Plus CN5650 packet proces...
Resilience has announced the release of the Resilience CWR 8100 series for Websense Web Security v7. The series of three new appliances has been engineered, developed and tested to provide Web security. Each solution is pre-loaded with Websense Web Security on a Linux-based Resilience-...
Cirrus Tech has announced the availability of openSUSE 10.3 on their Linux VPS plans. The addition of openSUSE rounds out Cirrus Tech’s list of available Linux operating systems for their VPS Plans. With most of the popular Linux distributions available, such as Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian,...
Concurrent, a provider of Linux-based computing technologies, has announced that General Communication, a cable operator providing voice, video and data communication service, has selected Concurrent to provide video-on-demand performance data collection, warehousing and analytics. GCI...
Paragon Development Systems (PDS) announced that it has acquired Provident Technologies. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The Sheboygan-based Provident Technologies is a Novell Platinum partner specializing in identity management and Linux-based solutions with engineeri...
Timesys Corporation launched LinuxLink 3.0, a software development service that reduces time, resources and the risk of building an open source, Linux-based product. LinuxLink 3.0 was created to help development teams navigate the challenges of evolving Linux code bases. LinuxLink 3.0 ...
Likewise Software has successfully completed the process for the Intel Certified Solutions Program. Likewise software helps Microsoft, Mac, Linux and Unix systems work together in mixed networks by administering authentication and access policies for all users from a centralized locati...
SMART Technologies has announced that SMART Notebook 10 software is now available for the latest core distributions of the Linux operating system. SMART is an interactive whiteboard manufacturer that provides full versions of its whiteboarding software for all three major operating sy...
Simba Technologies has announced the release of SimbaProvider OLAP SDK 4.2. SimbaProvider OLAP SDK is a solution for building OLE DB for OLAP and XML for Analysis data connectivity that connects business intelligence and analytics products like Microsoft Excel 2007 and SAP Business Obj...
IBM announced the availability of Lotus Notes 8.5 collaboration software with social computing features for all Mac OS X Leopard-powered computers. In addition, IBM's free Lotus Symphony document, spreadsheet and presentation software will be available later this month for the Mac. Lot...
AMD has released code on the ATI R600 series concerning 3D acceleration so that the open-source Linux drivers can begin to support the newer ATI graphics processors. This Linux code is needed to begin fostering the development of an open-source R600 3D driver. The microcode for the new...
It is easy to sympathize with software developers trying to build large, complex enterprise software solutions. At the start, a software development project is like a smooth sheet of ice: full of possibility. It’s a clean slate, free from architectural flaws, bugs, and broken code. But...
