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Marten Mickos, the longtime CEO of MySQL who eventually sold the open-source database company to Sun Microsystems for US$1 billion, has taken a new job as CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, the company said Friday.

At OSBC, a company exec noted that Microsoft relies upon a diverse ecosystem that includes open source to satisfy customers

Miranda IM is an all-in-one standalone app that allows you to merge contact lists and communicate with people on AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, and several other messengers out of the box. Module add-ons can make Miranda work with Skype and add other features.

Paul Ferrill introduces us to the Shutter screen grab for Linux application. Shutter offers a simple interface and a whole lot of functionality. including cursor capture, whole Web page capture, and annotations.

Common wisdom says that Linux lacks applications. Fortunately, the common wisdom is dead wrong on this, especially when it comes to productivity applications. Finding the applications, though, can be a challenge — so I've put together a list of 10 great, and free, productivity apps for the Linux desktop.

Medical imaging is an essential, non-invasive, routine activity performed by radiographers and radiologic technologists. It is a discipline of the health profession which involves using technology to capture images of the human body.

The next version of the Ruby scripting language has been rescheduled for release in mid August. The final release will be preceded by several previews and release candidates...

Operas mobile Web browsers shed their beta status and stand in as the new stable versions.