LinuxPR: “Digital Spinner, a web design and
development company, announced today the fourth release candidate of the
GroupIT Engine, a PHP-based content management and
group collaboration system capable of powering the next generation of web sites,
intranets and extranets. Notable new features include an improved installation
script, dynamic questionnaires, a re-designed default theme and a suite of
management conveniences. The entire source code for the GroupIT Engine is
available for download at http://www.groupit.org.”

LinuxPR: “In its first year, Great Bridge, the leading
provider of business solutions based on the PostgreSQL open source database,
has opened four regional offices, launched a ten-stop nationwide seminar tour
and logged tens of thousands of downloads of its enhanced version of
PostgreSQL, the company announced today.”

Kelly McNeill writes “It’s been a year since Be, Inc. was talking about some upcoming releases. Yet the releases have yet to surface. Instead, Be has now announced a “focus shift” that will supposedly change the company’s direction toward the Internet appliance market.”

“IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced the availability of a series of Linux technologies
developed in conjunction with the open source community to enhance the enterprise capabilities of Linux. Today’s announcement
will further enable Linux for mainstream business uses.” Full press release at LinuxPR.

“Today, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for the 32-bit architecture by Intel was awarded the status “Generally
Available for mySAP.com”. This certification now enables companies all over the world to utilize mySAP.com on SuSE Linux
Enterprise Server and take advantage of services and support from SAP AG.” More at Enterprise Linux Today.

Check out the photo galleries, audio files, and text reports from the recently-concluded Yet Another Perl Conference::North America that took place this year from June 13 – 15 in Montreal. All the juicy details are online at the yapc.org Web site.

“Gordano, Ltd. Thursday released a Linux version of GLMail, its high-performance, Unix-based mail server.

“Requests for Unix versions of our award winning products were becoming more frequent, and we do respond to
our customers’ suggestions whenever possible. Due to our design architecture and its independence from any one
operating system, we were able to create a product for the Linux platform very quickly,” Gordano Managing
Director, Brian Dorricott said in a prepared statement.” Full story at ServerWatch.

IDG: “Officials at Sprint Corp. confirmed late yesterday that what they described as a “very low impact” denial-of-service attack
occurred on the Sprint network Tuesday around 11 p.m.”

The latest version of Sarien, an Open Source implementation of of the Sierra On-Line Adventure Game Interpreter, is now available. From the Sarien news page: “Sarien 0.6.0 has been released. It uses a new sprite manager algorithm
and a redesigned interpreter core, and is expected to be much more
accurate than the previous versions. i386 and PowerPC Linux, Intel
BeOS and Win32 pre-built binaries are already availailable in the
download page, FreeBSD and Debian packages should be available
soon.”

GNU Bug Tracking System at sources.redhat.com: “In Gnatsweb 2.7 beta, a new help system was introduced. The standard help text was provided in a separate file named ‘gnatsweb.html’. For some reason it was
decided to allow the name of the help file to be customized, and it was possible to specify this filename by providing a value to the help_file parameter in a
request URL. By judicious use of special characters in the value of the help_file parameter, an attacker would be able to read the contents of any file or execute any
command to which the web server process user had access.”