Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Nordic operations of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), a leading global information technology (IT) services company, has standardized its mid-range Nordic Linux IT Infrastructure Outsourcing Services on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in response to an increasing demand for hosted Linux services in the Nordic region. CSC has also implemented the Red Hat Network Satellite Server systems management platform for a unified and centralized management, administration and provisioning model for its Linux systems.

The KDE community is happy to announce another update for the KDE 3 branch. KDE 3.5.9 is the latest bugfix and translation update for those who cannot or do not want to switch to KDE 4 yet. While currently no subsequent release for KDE 3 is planned, we will make sure to provide updates as they are needed to run your KDE3 smoothly also in the future.

Following the price of the USB keys on the market Mandriva has decided to
change the price of the Mandriva Flash 4GB from 79 euros/89USD to 59
euros/69USD!

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the fourth-annual Red Hat Summit to take place June 18-20, 2008 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass.

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, Intel and Fidelity National Information Services (NYSE: FIS) today announced a ground-breaking real-time technology solution for the commercial and retail banking industry. FIS Profile, running on an open source stack led by Red Hat's Enterprise Linux 5, has achieved new performance benchmarks, showcasing a bank with 25 million accounts running core banking processes in real time on a single server running four of Intel's new Quad-Core Xeon Series 7300 processors.

Canonical Ltd. announced today the upcoming availability of version 7.10 of the Ubuntu Server, Desktop, Kubuntu and Edubuntu Editions. All will be available for free download on Thursday 18 October. Canonical is the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu.

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, the openSUSE project provides free, easy access to the world’s most usable Linux distribution, openSUSE. openSUSE is released regularly, is stable, secure, contains the latest free and open source software, and comes with several new technologies.

SwisSQL Data Migration Edition extends its migration capabilities to PostgreSQL.

Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Spanair, one of the largest air carriers in Spain, has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the platform of choice for its recent IT initiatives. With Red Hat solutions, Spanair is experiencing increased performance and cost reduction.

The OpenOffice.org community today announced that IBM will be joining the community to collaborate on the development of OpenOffice.org software. IBM will be making initial code contributions that it has been developing as part of its Lotus Notes product, including accessibility enhancements, and will be making ongoing contributions to the feature richness and code quality of OpenOffice.org. Besides working with the community on the free productivity suite's software, IBM will also leverage OpenOffice.org technology in its products.

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