An intersection or mental alignment in Citrix/Xen, Microsoft, Nokia and Novell.

Lakin Hospital, a long-term nursing facility operated by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, has adopted an open source electronic health record.

Mozilla Firefox has revealed the date for their Guinness World Record attempt for the most software downloads in 24 hours. Mark your calendars! June 17 is the big day.

This document describes how to install and use gDesklets on Ubuntu 8.04. Taken from the gDesklets page: "gDesklets is a system for bringing mini programs (desklets), such as weather forecasts, news tickers, system information displays, or music player controls, onto your desktop, where they are sitting there in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness.

When it comes to open source adoption, Romania is also well behind some of it European neighbours, although given the socio-political changes that have taken place in Eastern Europe in the last 20 years it is no surprise that the maturity of the IT industry in many countries is well behind what we see in Western Europe and the US.

Co-founders Jake St. Peter and Thomas Ingham started Coalmarch, a Web applications development company, in 2004 after "about 10 years' background in Web development" for other companies, St. Peters says. After working for a company called gotickets.com, he and his partner decided to launch their own business, providing content management systems and shopping carts.

In around 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation.