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[News] New Open Source Products and Partnerships Announced

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New Releases Expand Splunk and Zenoss

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| Two different companies, but two essential applications for every enterprise 
| IT network, Zenoss and Splunk have both recently announced some great new 
| features and new partnerships (individually).  
| 
| Zenoss is an open source IT monitoring solution that combines the features of 
| what used to be separate solutions into one application. The non-free version 
| adds many advanced features and support.  
| 
| Splunk is an open source “IT Search Tool,” that gathers, aggregates, and 
| correlates logs and other sources of IT data in a slick, customizable, and 
| searchable interface. It, too, has a non-free version that provides features 
| that are more advanced.    
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http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3789851

GroundWork Improves Community Product Testing and Insight With BitRock Network
Service

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| GroundWork Open Source, Inc. ( www.groundworkopensource.com), the leader in 
| commercial open source systems and network management software, today 
| announced findings from the pre-release version of GroundWork Monitor 
| Community Edition 5.3, made available to the community on November 11, 2008. 
| The latest version of GroundWork Monitor is the first to incorporate 
| BitRock's Network Service update notification technology, which allows users 
| to automatically receive notifications of patches, updates, and news, as well 
| as voluntarily share GroundWork Monitor usage statistics.       
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/GroundWork-Improves-Community-Product-Testing/story.aspx?guid=%7B9041AEE9-08B4-4EAE-93D3-544A765528F3%7D
http://tinyurl.com/5dcol4

Christian Science Monitor Chooses Partners for Print to Web Conversion

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| The Christian Science Monitor, the first nationally circulated newspaper to 
| shift to an online publication with a weekly print edition , has chosen 
| Chicago-based web consulting firm Duo Consulting and Norway-based eZ Systems 
| to implement its new Web-first strategy by Spring 2009. eZ Systems is the 
| world’s largest Open Source web content management system software vendor 
| while Duo Consulting is one of the world’s leading web development firms.      
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http://www.mmdnewswire.com/christian-science-monitor-chooses-partners-for-print-to-web-conversion-4312-2.html
http://tinyurl.com/5jfbef

Good times for Free software.


Days ago:

Zmanda's Revenue and Subscriber Base Quadrupled in 2008 via Open Source Data
Protection Solutions

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| While data protection is a key factor in all sized businesses, the cost of
| data protection has become a challenge for businesses that are affected by
| economical crisis.
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http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/46682-zmandas-revenue-subscriber-base-quadrupled-2008-via-open.htm


Recent:

Ballmer says Microsoft not immune from global crisis

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080930/bs_nm/us_microsoft_ballmer;_ylt=Au5VO.rh_OuPGHCBr9O.m4K573QA


Ex-Microsoft boss sentenced

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/371393_msftcourt19.html


Related:

Former Microsoft Manager Gets 2 Years In Jail

http://news.portalit.net/fullnews_former-microsoft-manager-gets-2-years-in-jail_1427.html


SEC Investigating Microsoft Practices -- Earnings Manipulated, Former Employee
Contends

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| "The CFO to whom Charlie was reporting his concerns about illegality was the
| biggest advocate for the very illegality that was going on," Vial argued in
| court a year ago.
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http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19990701&slug=2969514


Microfraud?

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| THE ALLEGATIONS WERE shocking: For years, Microsoft has systematically
| distorted its profit figures in an effort to consistently beat Wall Street
| expectations and keep its stock price steadily rising. The false reports
| would violate SEC regulations, and amount to outright fraud.
|
| More shocking was the source of the allegations: Microsoft's chief of
| internal audits, Charlie Pancerzewski, who reported directly to the company's
| chief financial officer.
|
| Most shocking of all was what happened to Pancerzewski when he reported the
| suspicious bookkeeping to his supervisors, Microsoft CFO Mike Brown and chief
| operating officer Bob Herbold, in the spring of 1995. Soon afterward,
| Pancerzewski—who for nearly five years had received stellar performance
| evaluations—received his first-ever unsatisfactory one, and was eventually
| forced to resign.
|
| Two months ago, Microsoft quietly settled a lawsuit containing these
| allegations, filed in 1997 by Pancerzewski under the Whistleblowers
| Protection Act. The auditor claimed he was wrongfully terminated after
| telling his supervisors that Microsoft might be breaking securities and tax
| laws. The lawsuit made its tortuous way through several rounds of pretrial
| motions until last fall, when US District Judge Carolyn Dimmick denied
| Microsoft's final plea for summary judgment, finding credible evidence that
| Microsoft may have violated SEC rules, as Pancerzewski alleged. Shortly
| thereafter, Microsoft and Pancerzewski settled out of court. Terms of the
| agreement were sealed, but one source who claims familiarity with the case
| says that Microsoft paid Pancerzewski $4 million.
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http://web.archive.org/web/20070308032343rn_2/www.seattleweekly.com/1999-01-06/news/microfraud.php
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