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The article reports on the move of Tasktop Technologies to extend the use of HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and HP Quality Center to developers working on Mac and Linux operating systems. According to Tasktop chief executive officer (CEO) Mik Kersten, the move provides developers the ability to access and update application defects and requirements in HP ALM and HP Quality Center. The connection offers improved productivity and traceability between HP ALM and management tools.

The article reports on the launching of the Wall Display HX Series, graphics system software for supporting SPARC computer systems with multiple graphics cards/chips driving up to sixteen or more monitors, from Denver, Colorado-based Xi Graphics Inc. According to the company, having developed the series for use on x86 systems running Linux or Solaris, the move to Sun Microsystems' SPARC platforms was easy. The Wall Display HX series is high-performance, high-quality software based on commercial, proprietary X servers and graphics drivers, and fully compliant with the industry standard specifications for the X Window System graphics support software for UNIX/Linux systems.

The article reports on the completion by SGI and atsec information security of the Common Criteria evaluation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 Update 4 at evaluation assurance level (EAL) 3+ with compliance to the Controlled Access Protection Profile (CAPP). The SGI Altix server platform was used to examined RHEL Update 4. RHEL 4 provides an enterprise-focused Linux environment and areas of specific development include improvements in security capabilities and enhanced desktop capabilities and increased server performance and scalability.

The article reports on research by Matt Aslett, 451 Research LLC research director of data management and analytics, concerning the in-memory processing capability of Kognitio software to parallelize queries in the R scripting language. It shows that the scripting functionality of Kognitio is a framework that enables any programming language for which there is a Linux interpreter to run within the Kognitio Analytical Platform. The growth of the in-memory analytics market is also indicated.

The article reports on the strategic initiative of IBM and Oracle to meet the mainframe demand of Linux. According to Kim Stallings, general manager of the System z of IBM, Linux customers and Linux workloads represent a significant percentage of their mainframe growth revenue. It complements a series of investments made by IBM and Oracle in support of Linux as an enterprise application platform. The sales teams of both companies will collaborate to present the advantages of the initiative's offerings to joint customers. Solutions for the initiative will be available with both the IBM System z9 Enterprise Class and IBM System z9 Business Class servers.

This article reports on the completion of the Common Criteria evaluation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on a range of IBM server platforms, conducted by Atsec Information Security Corp. as of April 2006. The evaluation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4+ is the first successful evaluation at this level conducted under the U.S. National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme. Atsec has successfully conducted more than Common Criteria evaluations including six Linux evaluations on five different Linux platforms.

This article reports on the decision of Open Source Development Labs Inc., a global consortium focused on accelerating the adoption of Linux and open source software based in Beaverton, Oregon, to appoint Colin Hope-Murray as its Linux User Advisory Council director for Europe, Middle East and Africa. The company considers Europe as a spawning ground for Linux and open source projects and is in a very competitive position to drive new business opportunities around open source technologies. The company's Web site can be access at www.osdl.org for more information.