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UGS Speeds Linux Port of Its Digital Product Development Software with Support from AMD

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

UGS in cooperation with AMD, a leading microprocessor developer, has provided significant support during the development process to ensure compatibility and performance.

“We are pleased with the rapid progress our development team has made on Linux,” said Bob Brandenstein, director of Technology Management at UGS. “Our team has leveraged AMD Opteron(TM) processors for performance tuning and compatibility testing as well as compiling, building and testing our NX software on Linux. Support from allies like AMD accelerates our development process so we can quickly bring our products to market and better serve our customers.”

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Linux Professional Institute appoints new President and CEO

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Jim Lacey, has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the organization.

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), (http://www.lpi.org), the world’s premier Linux certification organization, is pleased to announce that LPI Board member, Jim Lacey, has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the organization.

“The Board of Directors of LPI are delighted that Mr. Lacey has made himself available for this challenging and demanding position. We on the Board have had the pleasure of working with Mr. Lacey for several years and we have always valued and respected his counsel. We welcome him to this new role and are certain that his knowledge of the IT training and certification industry will serve him well in providing leadership to the organization,” said Gen Narui, LPI Board member and Chairman of LPI affiliate, LPI-Japan.

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CSIR fights fire with OSS

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

The South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has built an open source fire-mapping system that enables organisations to monitor fire outbreaks across South Africa.

Frederic Claudel, an image processing researcher based at the Meraka Institute, worked on the project to port the once-proprietary mapping system to open source. The Advanced Fire Information System detects fires by analysing small changes to satellite images using complex algorithms. “Whenever the satellite takes an image, it will look for specific brightnesses … and look for anomalies,” says Claudel.

The system is accessible via the web, and any user can observe where fires have occurred in South Africa within 15 minutes of them starting. It won’t pick up a barbecue in your garden, says Claudel, but it will flag the more serious fires in your region.

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RightNow Touts Open-Source and On-Demand Apps

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Using open-source technology in combination with on-demand applications is the way for corporate IT departments to save the money they are currently spending on high-cost licensed software, says Greg Gianforte, CEO of on-demand customer relationship management software vendor RightNow Technologies Inc.

Gianforte argues that the combination of the open-source components such as the Linux operating system, the MySQL relational database and the Apache application server is robust enough to support the IT infrastructures of on-demand software vendors as well as their largest customers.

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