Worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) on September 20, 2008.

Alternative Technology will deliver Red Hat's industry-leading enterprise open-source solutions to the channel.

Annapolis, MD - Zenoss Inc., a leading provider of commercial open source application, systems, and network management software, today announced that its award-winning solutions are now available to Department of Homeland Security agencies via STGs Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions (EAGLE) IDIQ contract. DHS agencies can use the STG contract to obtain Zenoss' integrated management solution. It is the first time that STG, a leading systems integrator to the Federal government, has offered a Commercial Open Source IT Management Software solution to the Federal marketplace.

Omni Technology Solutions, Userful and Novell have created an exciting initiative to bring Multi-station Linux Desktops to computer labs and classrooms around the globe. Every university, college and school district in the world is entitled to a free 30-user Desktop Multiplier licence (software valued at $2,970, hardware not included). The first 30 customers will also receive a free 30-user subscription to SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop from Novell.

Englewood, Colo. - Alternative Technology, Inc., an Arrow Electronics, Inc. company and leading specialty distributor of thin-client/server-based computing, edge infrastructure, virtualization, storage and security solutions, today announced an agreement to sell Oracle Unbreakable Linux Support. Oracle Unbreakable Linux is a program that provides enterprises with award-winning global support for Linux and is fully compatible (both source and binary) with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program has become the choice of over 2,500 customers and continues to grow rapidly as customers experience the benefits of the program.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. LinMin, provider of award-winning LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning, today announced that it has joined the Intel Certified Solutions Program where it is being validated for software security, interoperability, and Intel multi-core processor compatibility. Certification will mean that LinMin customers who deploy, host or repurpose systems running Microsoft Windows or open source operating systems such as Red Hat, Novell, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora or Asianux are buying and using a solution they can be more confident in.

Annapolis, MD - Zenoss Core has been awarded the InfoWorld Best of Open Source Software Award in the Network Monitoring category. The InfoWorld judges cited Zenoss Cores unified, object-based repository of infrastructure monitoring, and tightly integrated tools and reports, as reasons for selecting Zenoss Core as the leading open source solution for network monitoring. The Zenoss Core project is sponsored and developed by Zenoss, Inc. a leading provider of open source network, systems and application management software.

SAN FRANCISCO - Jaspersoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business intelligence (BI), today announced the full-production availability of Jaspersofts iReport for NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE), which has been certified for NetBeans 6.0 and 6.1, and also supports the new beta version 6.5 announced today. In addition, Jaspersoft announced that Jasper for MySQL, the MySQL OEM edition of the Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite, has been upgraded to version 3 (v3). Together these optimized solutions deliver the most advanced business intelligence development platform for Suns leading open source products.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. LinMin, provider of the award-winning LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning solution, today unveiled Release 5.2, featuring a new Application Programming Interface (API), single-command installation, numerous feature enhancements and support for the provisioning and imaging of additional platforms. The API is designed to allow customers and partners to integrate LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning into environments that presently cannot do bare metal provisioning of Microsoft Windows, Red Hat, Novell, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora or Asianux on physical systems or virtual machines.

NORFOLK, VA - xTuple, the leader in open source enterprise resource planning software, today announced its xTuple ERP 3.0 application has been named Best Business Application for 2008 in the prestigious LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards competition at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2008 in San Francisco.
The LinuxWorld Product Excellence awards, judged by a group of respected industry experts and given out by IDG World Expo, producer of LinuxWorld, recognize major areas of innovation in the Linux and open source community. Among the criteria for the award are the vitality and contributions made by a products public user community, the continued support shown by the products host developer, and innovation in the features created by both the developer and the community.

James Christian Martin Group, in association with the technology firm, JCMconnect.com - has launched a new initiative to bring down the cost of computing, and enhance peoples everyday computing experience. The new initiative, called Arcadia Planitia - promotes the use and adoption of free open source software in the home and office.
There are many free, and arguably better alternatives to expensive commercial software. A notable example is the OpenOffice suite, which is free - and feature-wise is comparable to that of Microsoft Office. Arcadia Planitia's main goal is to get more home and office computers running Linux. Linux is a free operating system, which is also free to copy and redistribute.

IDS Logic is a well known IT organization that provides IT services such as web hosting, offshore software development and web designing to clients from all around the world. It operates all its business from its offshore centre located in Delhi NCR (National Capital Region), India, with its support and sales staff in UK and USA.

BROOMFIELD, CO - The Open Source Census, a global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software, today announced at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo it has identified more than 275,000 open source installations on more than 2,000 machines.
Kim Weins, senior vice president of products and marketing at OpenLogic, presented a status of the Census results Wednesday before the 9:00 a.m. Oracle keynote at LinuxWorld.
Firefox ranked as the most installed open source project. Zlib, Xerces, Xalan, and Wget are the second, third, fourth, and fifth, respectively. Participants span a wide variety of company sizes, geographies, and industries.
Main themes found by The Open Source Census revealed in today's presentation are:

Woburn, Mass. - LogMeIn announced today a new plug in available for Linux-based Nokia N800 and N810 devices, enabling users to remotely access and control their Windows PCs or Macs using LogMeIn Free or LogMeIn Pro.
The new plug in is LogMeIn's first step towards working on all Linux-based netbooks, tablets and MIDs. LogMeIn can already be used by Windows and Windows CE-based internet enabled devices.

OSCON, PORTLAND, Ore. - Jaspersoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business intelligence (BI), today announced the open beta of its new JasperForge, a next-generation community platform that will support the open source BI community with tools that meet the evolving needs of all community stakeholders from developers to business users.
Open source communities are changing and the Forges that support them need to evolve as well. No longer are Forges simply platforms for collaborating on software development. Evolving patterns of open source adoption have brought a new class of users to these platforms, representing diverse needs that reflect their disparate backgrounds.

Packt is pleased to announce a new book on Scalix, the open source e-mail and groupware server that runs on Linux. Written by a renowned Linux author Markus Feilner, this book teaches users to install, configure and administer the Scalix Collaboration Platform.
Scalix: Linux Administrator's Guide will help users to set up, implement, and manage both the free open-source Community Edition and the Enterprise Edition of Scalix Collaboration Platform one of the most widely used groupware servers for email, group calendaring, and messaging on Linux.
Scalix can be used very easily by beginners; however, strategies and administrative tasks are difficult to learn and this book will help users to master them all.

Building Telephony Systems with OpenSER is a new book from Packt, which acts as a step-by-step guide to building a high performance Telephony System. Written by Flavio E. Goncalves, this book teaches users how to develop a fast and flexible Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server using OpenSER.
OpenSER is a flexible, free, open-source VoIP server based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), an application-layer control (or signaling) protocol for creating, modifying, and terminating sessions with one or more participants, including internet telephone calls, multimedia distribution, and multimedia conferences.

NORFOLK, VA - xTuple, the leader in open source enterprise resource planning software, today announced the release of xTuple ERP 3.0, with an array of powerful new tools that enable ordinary system users to get more functionality from the worlds most advanced open source ERP system -- with no coding required. Among the key new features is a user-friendly Screen Builder for designing customized system dashboards and the worlds only open source assemble-to-order (ATO) Product Configurator for streamlining non-inventory order processing.

Taipei, Taiwan - Linux continues to be one of the most popular operating system choices within the embedded market. It has proven itself to be well suited for a wide range of applications across various industries, and continues to gain market share, despite not being particularly well matched for certain embedded applications types.

Bengaluru - OSScamp Bengaluru Mobile! 2008, The OSScamps Community is organizing OSScamp Bengaluru Mobile! 2008 in the city of Bengaluru (Bangalore) on July 19th, 2008. For the first time, the OSScamp Community is organizing an unconference around Mobile Technologies and creating a platform for discussing Mobile Technologies and FOSS in Mobiles in India. The emphasis is on discussing emerging technologies such as OS Development, Social Mobile, Mobile Commerce, Open Standards, Protocols, platform, Databases, Linux Based Devices, Android, Open Moko, Symbian, iphone, green phone, etc.
The unconference is being organized with the International Conference on Communication, Convergence, and Broadband Networking (http://www.ICCBN.net).