The 3.0 version of Aduva's OnStage suite for system deployment and management, due to be unveiled next week at LinuxWorld Expo, builds upon Aduva's core competency of auto-dependency knowledge and lifecycle management functionality to simplify the complexities of system deployments and the ongoing management of large and complex Linux environments through a unique knowledge-driven approach.

'We are pleased with the results we achieved in the June quarter, delivering revenue and profitability at the high end of our expectations,' said Dave Sikora, president and CEO, Pervasive Software, as Pervasive recently announced results for the fourth fiscal quarter and fiscal year ending June 30, 2005.

Novell has garnered the largest market share in China's Linux Server Operating Environment for the first half of 2005, according to IDC's recent study 'China Linux Market Analysis, 1H2005'. The report shows that Novell leads the industry by revenue with 32.9% market share and in unit shipments with 30 percent.

Die Eurocopter Group, eine hundertprozentige Tochter des führenden europäischen Luft- und Raumfahrtunternehmen EADS, hat das Computersystem Evolocity(R) von Linux Networx in seiner deutschen Dependance implementiert. Die Eurocopter Deutschland GmbH nutzt das System bereits für Strömungssimulationen von Hubschraubern und deren Subsystemen.

Red Hat announced this week that Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscribers were less susceptible to network security holes than users of other platforms according to a recently published report by the SANS Institute. The report identified the top twenty Internet security vulnerabilities. Of the twenty, only two affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscribers, for which Red Hat has already issued patches via Red Hat Network.

'Avocent continues to innovate with KVM, KVM over IP, and wireless KVM, among other technologies,' said John Humphreys, research manager at IDC, as Avocent this week introduced the AMX 5130 switch and a range of intelligent cables to the AMX product family.

Linux Networx has announced its first annual Linux Networx User Group Conference, to be held in Snowbird, Utah September 12-14. The event is planned to provide a unique opportunity for existing and potential customers to receive training, listen to testimonials and network with industry peers, receive technology updates from key HPC vendors, and be among the first to hear about new advances in the HPC industry.

An enterprising 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.

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.'

Denx Software Engineering has announced that its embedded Linux tools and OS are available for a general-purpose PowerPC SoC from AMCC. Embedded Linux Development Kit (ELDK) includes a graphical configuration manager, free real-time extensions, cross-development tools, and more, and is bundled with AMCC's Linux evaluation kit for the 440EP.

Rickford Grant, author of 'Linux For Non-Geeks' has now written a book about Xandros: 'Linux Made Easy' - with a companion CD of the Xandros Open Circulation OS.

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? 14,500 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 cuts in HP's workforce. He will brief analysts and reporters this morning on details of the plan.

Portland, OR-based OSDL will be opening a European office in Luxembourg. The consortium, which is the current home of Linux creator Linus Torvalds, is dedicated to accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux in the enterprise.

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today that it will be launching six new titles in the second half of this year to add to its portfolio of 16 leading i-technology titles. The new titles will include LAMP Developer's Journal (www.LAMP.sys-con.com), SEM/SEO Journal (www.SEO.sys-con.com), Linux Enterprise Magazine -in multiple languages- (www.LinuxEnterpriseMagaz ine.com), and three additional titles covering popular proprietary technologies.

IBM and Red Hat Software are reportedly offering free consultations to Solaris and HP-UX customers, about how to develop a migration strategy to a Lintel platform that includes Red Hat Linux and Intel-based IBM hardware. With Red Hat's first major Summit coming up in early June, it will be interesting to see what transpires.

Wind River is expanding its industry-leading Linux solutions to address critical developer needs across all phases of the Linux development cycle.

Aduva, a leading provider of system software management solutions for distributed and mainframe-based Linux environments, today announced first-quarter sales revenue in excess of one million dollars. The company's Linux deployment and production support software is being deployed on well over 20,000 servers and Aduva supports an estimated 20% market share for new workloads on the IBM zSeries.

A leader in embedded Linux technologies and development tools, TimeSys Corporation, has introduced LinuxDepot and LinuxEngine, new 'Linux Customization' solutions aimed at meeting the precise feature, footprint and hardware requirements of any embedded device.

The innovative features of a Linux-based Mobile Desktop called 'Mobilis' have already attracted three major clients viz. ITC (for health and education), Reva Electric Car Company (for its dashboards) and some South African Universities for their students, said the company's CEO yesterday in a launch event sponsored by the Government of India's Ministry of Science & Technology.

Micro Center is going from today to be offering Linspire pre-installed on a number of PowerSpec desktop computers. The Linspire/Micro Center partnership follows recent market research reports that predict revenues from desktop Linux PCs will grow to $10 billion by 2008.

Novell has expanded its commitment to enterprise-class security by acquiring Immunix, Inc., a leading provider of host-based application security solutions for Linux. AppArmor, the Linux application security system, will from today be called Novell AppArmor.

'If you're not running Linux, it's difficult for an emerging Internet business like ours to get funding,' says Scott Rafer, CEO of Feedster. The entrepreneurial search engine and advertising network, based in San Francisco, says it has reduced its operating hardware costs by 60 percent by deploying Novell's SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server on AMD 64-bit hardware architecture.

BitDefender, the Romanian security house, has upgraded its Samba Linux File Servers to version 1.6.2 and open sourced parts of it. The antivirus for Samba is capable of scanning and disinfecting shared files and folders on access and on-demand, and can be installed alongside of BitDefender for Linux Mail Servers.

In the name of simplicity, Dell is going to start offering patch management software that's integrated with Altiris' for updating server environments. The stuff will be part of Dell's OpenManage 4 systems management software, which has been integrated with the complete Altiris Management Suite.

Novell has tapped Ron Hovsepian to be president, worldwide field operations responsible for field marketing and sales, channel sales and marketing, consulting, services and Novell's alliance program. He'll have all the regions reporting to him, relieving Novell CEO Jack Messman of some reports.

Investors are itchy about that $2.2 billion Siebel has socked away in the bank not to mention its dragging stock price. Siebel's unexpected new CEO George Shaheen, three weeks into the job, is now saying that the company will make acquisitions and targeted investments, as well as the job and cost cuts he been talking about, to right itself.

Oracle and Siebel have apparently had what sound like pretty unenthusiastic, going-nowhere-now takeover discussions recently, according to the Wall Street Journal, which got it from TheDeal.com, which apparently picked up on a lead from one of Siebel's unhappy shareholders who wrote Siebel founder Tom Siebel a letter mentioning 'persistent market rumors of a premium offer for Siebel by a natural strategic acquirer.' Siebel should be so lucky.

Penguin Computing has hired Sun refugee Bill Cook as senior VP of sales and services, a new position, to drive its aggressive HPC revenue goals. He used to be senior VP of US sales at Sun Microsystems. He was with Sun for 19 years,

Quoting an unidentified hedge fund manager supposedly 'close to McNealy' - well, maybe he was before the story hit - BusinessWeek caused a bit of a brouhaha last Friday when it said Sun was considering using its $7.5 billion stash to go private at $5-$5.50 a share with the help of LBO maven Silver Lake Partners - the place its ex-president Ed Zander retreated to before going to Motorola. The story said Sun would then shrink itself by selling assets, bolster its core product lines and go public again a la the great Silver Lake-engineered Seagate resurrection.

IBM is going to cut 10,000-13,000 jobs, mostly in Europe where it's been weak and mostly out of its precious service organization, to propitiate the gods who ruined its first quarter. IBM has been hinting that it was going to restructure since it rushed out the news that its quarter had come a cropper three weeks ago.

Novell has (CS2C), a Linux firm, to promote local development and adoption of Linux. The pair is supposed to cooperate in providing technology, services and marketing to optimize and promote Linux to the Chinese market.

Firefox has doubled its market share, according to Janco's April Browser Market Share Study. It says that Firefox has grabbed 10.28% of the browser market in less than three months and based on conversations with a number of industry sources and Janco's own projections, it feel that Firefox could have up to 25% of the browser market in the next quarter.

Saying it's answering mounting demand for more visualization capability in the hands of Linux users struggling with big data problems, Silicon Graphics has extended its family of rack-mount Prism boxes with a new deskside model that starts at $8,500 and packs up to 24GB of memory and two full bandwidth graphics pipelines. The new model, whose memory doubles IBM and HP systems, pushes Prism systems to their lowest price point ever.

Egenera would probably like to go public to pay for its continued growth. Goodness knows it's had its S-1 registration filed with the SEC since last summer. However, the stars over Wall Street haven't aligned for high tech lately so Egenera's arranged for Horizon Technology Finance LLC to provide it with $15 million in long-term funding and Silicon Valley Bank to increase its existing credit line from $10 million to $30 million.

The Utah federal court presiding over the SCO v IBM case ruled on the Forbes-CNET-G2 motion to unseal the court records this afternoon less than 72 hours after hearing arguments on the motion. It denied the press's motion to intervene but took steps 'to minimize the risk of over-designating confidential documents, thereby maximizing the public's accessibility to the document file the case.'

Turbolinux says it's got a deal in its pocket that will see the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China's biggest commercial banks holding a fifth of the total assets held in all banking institutions in China and a Fortune 500 company, standardize on Turbolinux' operating systems and software throughout its banking operations over the next three years. The Japanese company claims it's the largest Linux deployment to date in the Chinese financial industry.

Jeremy Allison, the Samba leader, has left HP to join Novell, a move he's been toying with since HP sent him to Novell's BrainShare user conference last year. Reluctant to go, Allison went anyway and says he was delighted to find a company so dedicated to Linux even the widgetry used to make the badges was Linux-based.

On Tuesday afternoon an hour before the Utah court presiding over the great SCO v IBM case heard the G2-Forbes-CNET motion to unseal all the court records in the case, IBM delivered a letter to SCO's lawyers offering to unseal some stuff provided anything confidential was redacted - a cute ploy as transparent as a pane of window glass. At the hearing, SCO's lawyer Brent Hatch, who's opposed to the court granting the motion, complained that IBM had 'over-designated' the documents it wanted sealed under the gentlemen's agreement that the two companies signed at the beginning of this whole thing that lets either side seal whatever it wants to - within the bounds of the federal rules of engagement, which kinda restricts it to trade secrets, current business plans, current customer lists, stuff like that. No judge had anything to do with it, and SCO basically said IBM is taking advantage.

IBM, which was the first big OEM to back Opteron two years ago, but has never subsequently seemed very enthusiastic about it, was downright effusive about it at AMD's launch party in New York Thursday night. It waxed eloquent about the 'strong and powerful relationship' it expects to have with AMD 'for many years to come.'

If you blinked, you missed this, but somebody at HP last week jumped the gun and prematurely mounted a web page indicating that HP would be selling dual-core Opteron boxes. Actually HP won't be able to deliver the things for another month.