Canonical Joins The Linux Foundation, Aug 18, 2008

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that Canonical has become a member of the Foundation.

Faronics is helping Linux administrators stay cool this summer by announcing the release of the highly anticipated Linux version of Deep Freeze, Faronics' flagship system consistency software.

Two of the Most Widely Used Applications on Linux Will Achieve Application Portability and Be Represented on the LSB Steering Committee

Open Invention Network (OIN), the company formed by IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony, unveiled today some of the new patents it has acquired in order to protect the Linux environment. The new e-commerce and Internet-related software patents will be offered royalty-free, along with OIN's existing intellectual property portfolio, to its licensees.

Xandros, the leading provider of easy-to-use Linux alternatives to Windows, and Avanquest, a global developer and publisher of best-selling personal and professional software, announced today an agreement to deliver the Xandros line of easy-to-use desktop and server products to retailers, resellers and distributors throughout Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.

At the Open Source Business Conference, the Free Standards Group, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing and promoting open source software standards, and the Linux Standard Base (LSB) workgroup announced that the LSB has achieved unanimous official approval as an ISO standard - an important milestone signifying the maturity and scope of both the LSB and the Linux operating system.

Xandros, the leading developer of easy-to-use Linux solutions, today announced that it is shipping Xandros SurfSide Linux.

Two Powerful New Altus Servers, AMD Opteron Processor's Second Anniversary Highlight Growth of High Performance Computing Market

Penguin Computing, a leading provider of highly scalable Linux server and cluster solutions, today introduced its new blade server, BladeRunner.

Penguin Computing, a leading provider of highly scalable Linux server and cluster solutions, today announced it has expanded its Relion server product line, known for its price/performance and reliability, with new models featuring Intel® Xeon® processors with EM64T technology.

Covalent Technologies, a leader in Web application management solutions, today announced Covalent Application Manager (CAM) is the first complete management solution for the open source stack. Covalent Application Manager manages all major open source Web application resources including Tomcat, Jboss, Linux, Apache, and MySQL, solving the current "Achilles heel" of enterprise open source adoption. Covalent also announced momentum for this solution with the signing of two enterprise customers.

The customers utilizing CAM to manage their open source stack are La Quinta, a hotel chain with more than 360 properties in 33 states, and National Semiconductor, an analog technology company with yearly sales over $1.67 billion. This customer adoption is testament to the power of CAM to manage the growing number of open source resources deployed in the enterprise.