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Stratus Technologies has announced three new ftServer V Series servers running its proprietary VOS operating system. Stratus specializes in fault-tolerant systems and, until its development of Windows-based products in 2004, they all ran VOS.

The French government plans to make the region around Paris a center of excellence for open-source software development, said the French Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry, Thierry Breton.

A small chip mounted in the plug housing could enable copper high-speed data cables to be thinner, lighter, and run further, its inventor has claimed.

With its latest purchase under its belt, open-source software start-up Pentaho will be able to offer a complete business intelligence (BI) suite, according to Richard Daley, the company's chief executive officer.

The Eclipse Foundation at the EclipseWorld 2006 conference this week plans to tout the progress of open source projects focused on desktop application development, PHP (Hypertext Processor) and embedded Java.

A pair of Silicon Valley-based open-source collaboration vendors has released new versions of their software at LinuxWorld, renewing their challenge to the dominance of Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes by offering what they claim are cheaper, more flexible alternatives.

Even as it continues to search for a buyer for its Snap Server NAS (network-attached storage) business, Adaptec has rolled out the latest additions to its Linux-based NAS hardware line.

IBM Monday released the source code for its Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) to encourage independent software vendors (ISV) to use the framework for the creation of complex, enterprise-ready text analytics applications on a standards-based platform.

Brian Stevens, formerly Red Hat's vice president of operating system, storage and clustering development, has been named the Linux company's CTO and is leading its newly formed Emerging Technologies Group. He spoke recently with Network World Senior Editor Jennifer Mears about where Red Hat is heading. What follows is an edited transcript of their discussion.

IBM announced the first application vendors -- SAS Institute and Absoft -- to support its Grid and Grow bundle of software, hardware and services Tuesday. Big Blue first unveiled the bundle two months ago positioning it as a starter pack for midsize and large companies wanting to move into grid computing. IBM is now looking to extend the offering in a variety of ways both in terms of targeted users and vendor support.

Despite its strong ties to proprietary software vendors, the Australian Taxation Office has finally dipped its toes into open source by establishing a Linux-based system for information analytics.