OpenDocument is submitted to ISO/IEC JTC1 for approval as a de jure standard,
Australian National Archives adopt it, and WordPerfect will support it:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20051006155004596
IBM Prepare to launch the Cell CPU at targets other than the PS3, producing
blade servers and toolkits to process sonar, radar and MRI images:
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3554141
CyberSOurce points out that the differences in migrating to Microsoft Office 12
are greater than migrating to OpenOffice, and the latter is much cheaper:
http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/openoffice_migration_easier_for_users.html
The Register digs deep to find Dell's OS-free PC, and when it finally finds one
discovers it costs more than one with Windows on:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/06/dell_open_pc/print.html
Sun puts all of Project GlassFish, an Open Source Java EE 5 Application Server
including EJB and JSP amongst others, out under the CDDL licence:
http://glassfish.dev.java.net/
Sun Also releases a NetBeans 5.0 Beta, with a new GUI builder called Matisse,
support for WebLogic and the open-source JBoss application servers:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1866592,00.asp
And finally. Scientists start to investigate the origins of happiness. Next
thing you know, they'll put it in pills. No, wait! That's illegal already ...:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-1793873_1,00.html
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.