Critical Software and NetEffect today announced a partnership whereby Critical will support NetEffect's iWARP Ethernet Channel Adapters in their popular WMPI II Message Passing library. This will enable the High Performance Cluster (HPC) community to run compute intensive applications that use MPI for parallel processing over a cluster of Windows or Linux servers, connected by NetEffect cards.
NetEffect's iWARP Ethernet Channel Adapters feature the industry's first full iWARP Ethernet implementation providing 10 Gbps performance. iWARP Ethernet offloads networking processing from the CPUs used in HPC clusters by up to 90%,resulting in increased server productivity and cluster efficiency.

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., October 18, 2006 – Symbio Technologies, an innovator in stateless computing, announced today that it is expanding its Linux development arm dedicated to the creation of stateless computing systems.

WOBURN, MA - October 17, 2006 - Percussion Software, a leading developer of Web Content Management (WCM) software for multi-channel, customer-centric applications, today announced that the University of Rhode Island (URI) and Nottingham Trent University (NTU) in the UK are among the growing list of customers deploying its award-winning Rhythmyx Web Content Management (WCM) software on the open source Linux server platform. These Rhythmyx for Linux customers are representative of increased interest in Rhythmyx on the Linux platform in the education, government, technology, healthcare and other industry sectors.

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AXIGEN Mail Server became available for Swiss market as a result of the distribution agreement signed between local company SCS Telemedia AG and Gecad Technologies (Romania).

Financial services company Nexxar Group, Inc. is consolidating more than 80 x86 servers onto an IBM (NYSE: IBM) System z9 Business Class mainframe running Linux to help drive its strategy of acquiring businesses and winning new private label relationships, the companies announced today. Nexxar Group also expects to save 30% per year in related operating costs as a result of switching to the System z9.

Castle Technology Ltd (Castle) and RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) are pleased to announce plans for the opening-up of RISC OS source code. This step is a further major landmark in the development of the highly respected software platform. A primary objective is to bring RISC OS software to a wider community and to encourage growth in both the RISC OS user base and the developer community. This will be augmented by more rapid development of the software base and removal of critical barriers to use, normally associated with proprietary platforms.

The latest release of the award-winning VMware ESX Server and VirtualCenter furthers your ability to pervasively deploy virtualization with full 64-bit OS support, non-disruptive upgrades and product localization.

OpenOffice.org is becoming more and more widely used. OpenOffice.org's Open Document Format (ODF) has received both OASIS and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) approval--a first for an office file format--and some countries, such as Belgium and Malaysia, to name but two, will be migrating government offices to ODF. But for all the application's and format's popularity, users lack a wealth of templates and clipart. Let's change that!

Here then is the challenge: Create and submit templates and clipart as part of the competition and be eligible for a share of the cash and other awards totaling over USD$5000. (You are always welcome to send in works outside the contest as well.) Winners will be given the opportunity of including their templates in the OpenOffice.org installation sets.

Mandriva launches Corporate Server 4.0, a full, open solution that will let you deploy servers in any environment in just a few minutes.

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