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In an unexpected development, chip giant Intel has joined the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative. The nonprofit project aims to equip children in developing countries with specially designed low-cost notebooks powered by chips from Intel's rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

The most significant development in the next major release of MySQL AB's open-source database, MySQL 6.0, will be the inclusion of the vendor's homegrown Falcon storage engine, according to company CEO Marten Mickos.

A few weeks back, one of The Tolly Group's testing clients got a fair bit of press when it announced test results showing that its open source, Fast Ethernet router outperformed Cisco's 2821 Integrated Services Router.

Sydney-based IVR and VoiceXML application vendor Holly Connects is taking on the world with software developed with a mix of agile and traditional methods, without the offshoring.

3Com and IBM this week extended their integration of virtualized VoIP by enabling interoperability between IBM's Lotus Sametime and 3Com's IP PBX, running on IBM's midrange servers.

Cisco says it is not releasing its NAC client software code to the open source community, nor does the company have plans to exit the endpoint security client business, despite a Cisco executive telling the contrary to the media earlier this month.

Businesses looking for an open source disaster recovery solution for Linux should consider Mondo Rescue, which is more flexible than other solutions, according to its developers.

Solid Information Technology Tuesday released solidDB for MySQL, a database consisting of the MySQL relational database management system backed by Solid's solidDB Storage Engine. Compared to the commonly used InnoDB, Solid posted more than twice the transactions per second in the TM1 Benchmark for a database with 1,000,000 rows.

Following the fire sale of IP telephony vendor Zultys to Pivot for $US2.65 million last month, the local operation has ceased with key staff now launching the US-based ShoreTel PABX vendor locally.

The open-source movement, which has long made inroads into corporations via Linux and other enterprise-level software, now has a potentially bigger target in its cross hairs: the PBXs and network routers from companies such as Cisco Systems that form the basis of networking infrastructure.

Don't hold your breath for "true" broadband wireless services: They'll be based on handheld devices that don't exist yet and networks that have barely been built, according to speakers at the Broadband World Forum in Paris.