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ZDNet reports on the many reported shortcomings in MS Office 10 beta 2. The problems, primarily with its speech recognition software may force Microsoft to release a beta 3.

OS Opinion says “the Mac press is spreading FUD on the subject of Mac OS X. Members of the PC press seem enthusiastic about the OS, and isn’t that exactly what Mac supporters have been waiting for? But as soon as PCers start gushing about it and Apple seems to be looked at with renewed interest from the real world, then the Mac Press starts dumping on OS X with uninformed and sometimes just plain unresearched nonsense.” –Kelly McNeill

The Cobalt RaQ4 is a Linux-based server appliance that provides a dedicated developer/web-hosting platform ideal for virtual Web site hosting, Internet services (e-mail, ftp), web publishing, personal and client development and e-commerce applications.
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full review at Linuxlookup.com. -Anonymous Reader

From Business Wire: RidgeRun Inc., a provider of embedded Linux software for products employing digital
signal processing components, announced today two appointments to strengthen the senior management of the company.
Rudy Prince has been appointed CEO and chairman of the board. Prince will be overseeing the company’s strategy, products, marketing focus and
pursuit of key strategic and financial partners. He brings a wealth of business and management experience to the new start-up venture. In addition to Prince’s appointment, Rick Seger has been appointed vice president of Business Development. Seger is responsible for RidgeRun’s
worldwide sales and partnering efforts to a wide range of manufacturers, developers and application solutions providers for Internet appliances.

InfoWorld reports that Computer Associates has released a new version of its Unicenter TNG ebusiness management software. Unicenter TNG 2.4 features comprehensive Linux platform support. LinuxPR has a press release.

From LinuxPR: After selecting Open CASCADE
as the development tool for its ANATOLE
tolerance analysis software, the Corporate Research Center of EADS at
Suresnes (France) has once again chosen these open-source C++ 3D modeling
components from Matra Datavision along with the 3D-MasterSuite Java 3D
graphic library from TGS for creation of an integration platform for its simulation
software ASERIS-FD. The CCR has ordered 121,000 euros worth of
development services from the Open CASCADE and TGS teams for the
project. These services will allow obtaining greater productivity and ease of use
from the ASERIS-FD solver.

From LWN.net: “During internal source code auditing by FreeBSD several buffer overflows
were found which allow an attacker to make tcpdump crash by sending
carefully crafted packets to a network that is being monitored with
tcpdump.”

From LinuxPR: VA Linux Systems announced that D.H. Brown Associates, a leading
research and consulting firm, has rated VA as #1 in overall Linux strategy in
DHBA’s recently released multi-client study on “Linux Strategies and
Solutions.” (VA Linux owns NewsForge.)

CNet reports that TimeSys, a seller of Linux for cars and consumer electronics, has opened a Japanese office. ”
Embedded Linux companies such as TimeSys, MontaVista Software, LynuxWorks and
Lineo are pushing the comparatively new operating system into a growing class of
’embedded’ devices.”

From LinuxPR: XINIT Systems, aUK Linux system vendor and provider of professional
services today announced a realignment of its product line as its core product
offerings shift to servicing the internet server market. The WebLoad rack
mount server series is positioned at fullfilling the needs of the ISP/ASP
community that demand maximum reliability, scalability and density for internet
server applications. WebLoad servers feature high availability and
redundancy components such as hot-pluggable hard drives and power supplies
– ensuring increased uptime in mission critical situations. The servers range from
the single processor WebLoad 1100 to the high-end, quad-processor,
WebLoad 1400T and WebLoad 1740 systems.