Open source innovator and SNORT® creator, Sourcefire, Inc. today announced the acquisition of leading open source gateway anti-virus technology provider, ClamAV. Sourcefire will continue to develop and offer ClamAV as an open source (GPL) solution, while also leveraging it throughout the commercial Sourcefire Enterprise Threat Management (ETM) offerings.

Opensource Antivirus

IDG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows, conferences and events for technology markets around the globe, in conjunction with Sys-Con Media, the world’s leading i-technology media company, today announced the winners of the Product Excellence Awards at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo®, held this week at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

The “Best of Show” award, which recognizes the best total industry solution, was presented to Novell for their OpenSUSE product.

Below are the Best in Show Awards that were presented, take notice no mention of RedHat anywhere. It is just my observation they seem to be in some sort of slump here lately.
Congratulations Novell

Best Application Development Platform
Novell – Mono Development Framework

Best Clustering Solution
Continuent – Continuent p/Cluster

Best Desktop Solution
SunWah – Linux Rays LX 1.5

Best Grid Computing Solution
Themis – DCRM

Best Database Solution
Oracle – Oracle Database 10g Express Edition

Best Messaging Solution
Scalix – Scalix Appliance

Best Open Source Solution
Xchange Server 5 – Open

Best Security Solution
Barracuda Networks – Barracuda Spyware Firewall

Best Systems Management Tools
rPath Inc. – rBuilder

Best Virtualization Solution
SWsoft Inc. – Virtuozzo for Linux

Most Innovative Hardware
AMD – Dual Core AMD Opteron processors Models 885, 285 and 185

Best Integration Solution
Xandros – Xandros Server

Cleveland’s Key Bank is keeping its own bank balance healthy by moving much of its back-end infrastructure to Linux.

In mid-2004, Key Bank, which manages US$92.3 billion in customer assets, began replacing aging Unix servers with Intel-based Linux servers that are less expensive than sticking with pricey and proprietary Unix hardware. The bank saw its server costs fall by 80 percent, according to Dave Seager, vice president of Unix systems engineering.

Most of Key Bank’s servers are Hewlett-Packard two- or four-way boxes, models such as the 360, 380 or 585 running Intel processors, Seager said. They typically start at just US$3,000, rather than US$30,000 for a Sun Sparc-based server. That price difference won over Key Bank executives who were initially hesitant about the move.
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Being a long time supporter of SuSE I will be the first to admit that when the Novell SuSE merger took place I was very skeptical and looking for a new distro. Then Novell sort of pushed me that way with their first release of then the new SuSE product 9.3, it was just not a pleasent experience. Users were scurrying to find a different distro and also reverting back from 9.3 to 9.2 with a google search you can find evidence of this all over the web. I took 2 steps back and decided to try and stick it out and I am glad I have because the new flagship product SuSE 10 is a very nice product which suits all users beginners to advanced.
The resulting new network will eventually connect more than 100,000 doctors, 380,000 nurses and 50,000 other health care professionals in England.

Novell’s flagship SuSE Linux Server product, a distant second to leading Linux-seller Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) in recent years, won 53 percent of the delegate vote at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in Frankfurt, Germany. Red Hat won 37 percent, while 8 percent went to the lesser-known Mandriva. Continued Reading
Though this is great news for Novell and I have to take my hat of to them for moving and shaking, I must say that they have me sitting on needles again waiting for an annoucment. It has been rumored and publicly stated that Novell plans to drop KDE and make GNOME its main desktop and development environment. I think I will just wait it out again.

–Elijah

Beagle is a tool I discovered while on one of my opensource journeys. I am a very big advocate of FreeBSD and BSD in general. I woke up one day and said why are you still using Micr$oft for a desktop O/S. So I loaded up SuSE Linux 10 Retail, I have always supported them and decided this was it. Needless to say I have not looked back. But this is not about my desktop journey it is about Beagle one who barks loudly and always finds what you tell it to look for. I wanted to match my desktop at work app for app to prove to myself and my conscious that Linux was not only ready for home desktop use but also for business use, at least my everyday business use and I had achieved that. Then the company decided to go out and spend very big money on a desktop search tool. Yes they had thrown a monkey wrench my way but with a little searching I came across Beagle. I have only been using it for a few days but I can say this dog hunts. It is a very light client and with Yast on SuSE or even apt4suse for the debian converts it was very easy to install and I noticed it is very light. Beagle indexes IM, IRC, documents, web history, source code, images file and applications and I must say it is very effecient at it. Enough of my ranting put this dog to hunt for you Beagle the ultimate opensource desktop search tool.

–Elijah