San Diego, CA – January 31, 2006 – Storix, Inc. announced the first-ever full-system backup and disaster recovery support for Linux systems installed on HP Integrity series servers, which utilize Intel’s Itanium IA-64 processor. The new support arrives in Storix’ latest release of System Back Administrator (SBAdmin) version 5.3 released today.

WCC Services U.S. Inc., a software company dedicated to delivering faster, more meaningful match results, today unveiled an important upgrade of its high-performance search and match system – ELISE. Now available for the Linux environment, ELISE 5.2 enables businesses to perform complex searches and find the most meaningful information. The product is used primarily in the staffing, e-commerce and security industries to find the people, products, or services that best match the user’s requirements.

CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a leader in Digital Home solutions, today launched PowerCinema Linux, providing an easy means of converting the Linux PC into a feature-rich TV entertainment center ideally suited for PC vendors targeting the CE market.

Aladdin has announced general availability of its eToken Middleware for Linux 3.60 and eToken Middleware for MAC OS 3.60. This new software enables interaction between the eToken smart card authentication token and computers running on the MAC OS or Linux, and provides full support for secure token-based strong authentication and PKI solutions.

Mandriva, publisher of the popular Mandriva Linux operating system, today announced a new partnership with HP to distribute HP computers pre-loaded with Mandriva Linux 2006 to 37 countries in Latin America. As part of the agreement, Mandriva has been named the "Preferred Linux Partner for Latin America" and Mandriva Linux 2006 has been optimized and certified for HP machines. The companies will work together on sales, support and marketing in all Latin American territories, including Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.

Grisoft expands its award-winning product line with AVG Free for Linux - a free version of its advanced antivirus tool designed specifically for home use on the Linux desktop.

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Novell announced today that its Global Support and Services organization has achieved certification under the prestigious Support Center Practices (SCP) Certification program. Novell joins the ranks of other leading technology companies that have achieved the prestigious and sought-after SCP Certification, including Lockheed Martin Incorporated, McKesson Corporation, Rockwell Automation, Nokia, Sage Software, EMC and Xerox Corporation, among others. SCP Certification quantifies the effectiveness of customer support based upon a stringent set of performance standards and customer satisfaction, and it represents best practices in the industry. Novell achieved certification after an extensive audit of support capabilities. As a result, Novell® customers will get predictable, reliable support from Novell in keeping their IT infrastructure in top condition.

Placitas, NM – January 2, 2006 - Excel Software began shipping QuickUML 2.0 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. QuickUML is an intuitive UML tool, well suited to agile development methods or extreme programming. A tabbed window provides tight integration and synchronization to the entire project through use cases, class models, object models, dictionary and code. Each use case captures the essence of a user-visible function the system must perform. Class models show package and class objects in the system and various kinds of static relationships. Sequence diagrams illustrate how instantiated objects interact and emphasize the order in which things occur. A design project is saved as a platform independent XML file.

2nd January, 2006: Daffodil Software today announced the new release of its open source CRM solution Daffodil CRM with database independence as its major feature. The all powerful and user-friendly contact/leads management solution has also been enhanced with many more features in the new release.

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