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A startup founded by former JBoss developers will come out of stealth mode Monday to announce a new product designed to help businesses zero in on their best sales leads.

A Canadian open source firm is considering contributing its technology to the LiMo Foundation, a consortium of companies striving to build a globally-available open, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices.

IBM has launched a program that it claimed allows mainframe users to monitor their systems' energy consumption in real-time.

A federal grand jury indicted two men in California of conspiring to steal high tech trade secrets and develop them with venture capital funding they sought to obtain from China.

Considering that a high-end BRMS (Business Rule Management System) costs about US$50,000 just to get started, and that annual maintenance, runtime fees, and professional services can drive the total toward a hefty half-million or more, organizations on a tight budget have incentive to seek alternatives. Thankfully, good options exist. Two of the better low-or-no-cost tools are Jess from Sandia National Laboratories, and JBoss Rules from JBoss, a division of Red Hat.

As a stranger in my own town, wandering the portals of the Linux Australia 2006 conference at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, I was strictly doing the paint-by-numbers thing.

The former manager of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s nonstop server division, Pauline Nist, has joined Penguin Computing Inc., a vendor of high-availability and high-performance Linux systems based in San Francisco. Penguin owns Scyld Software, publisher of the Scyld Beowulf clustering software for the open-source Linux OS.

Novell won't release its fourth-quarter financial results until Dec. 1, according to information on the company's Web site and a Thursday 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Recent comments from Novell's new second-in-command earlier this week had suggested that the software vendor's results would appear imminently in tandem with restructuring news. The company's financial year ended Oct. 31.

Decrying the proliferation of open source license varieties, a Hewlett-Packard executive on Tuesday urged IBM and Sun Microsystems to abandon their own licenses and back the GNU GPL (General Public License).

Open-source zealots may continue to play a part in instigating the spread of Linux across the European continent, nearly 14 years after Linus Torvalds hatched the operating system in Finland. But private corporations and public-sector users in Europe typically cite pragmatic reasons for taking up the open-source operating system. They point to price and performance benefits. They want freedom to swap out hardware. They find the operating system reliable. They like its flexibility.

While the loudest buzz in the operating system/hardware arena has been the news of Apple's jump to Intel CPUs, another story that may be of more interest to enterprise datacenter managers involves two completely different operating system/CPU platforms - Linux and HP's NonStop servers.