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• WordPress guns for Web content management duties

  Long popular with bloggers, the open-source WordPress blogging software is also starting to find a niche as a low-cost corporate CMS (content management system), at least for managing relatively simple Web sites.

• Stay away from OpenOffice.org until Oracle shows commitment, analyst says

  A European IT consulting firm is warning large enterprises and government entities not to deploy OpenOffice.org until Oracle Corp. shows proof that it will invest as heavily in the development of open-source productivity suite as project champion Sun Microsystems Inc. did.

• Open-source, proprietary vendors partner on cloud BI

  Four open-source and proprietary vendors on Wednesday announced a new partnership resulting in a cloud-based BI (business intelligence) stack.

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  KDE 4.3 released for a 'greatly' improved experience

  After six months of development the KDE project has released the most anticipated upgrade of the KDE 4 series, KDE 4.3, which promises to greatly improve the overall user experience of the open source desktop environment.

• NICTA opens its software to the world

  Research organisation National ICT Australia (NICTA) has stepped up its support for open source software by launching the OpenNICTA portal where people can view and download software developed and licensed by the organisation.

• Open-source adoption faces extra obstacles in China

  The uphill battle that open-source programs face to steal ground from proprietary software comes with added pitfalls in China, where problems like software piracy take away strengths that open source has elsewhere.

• PostgreSQL 8.4 released, focus on admin, monitoring

  The PostgreSQL project has released version 8.4 of its namesake open source database system with some 300 new or improved features and a renewed focus on administration and monitoring tools.

• Seattle center develops tech for poor people

  The first question many people asked when Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus proposed the Village Phone idea was: Who will they call?

• OpenSource World offering free admission

  Organizers of the upcoming OpenSource World conference broadened the event program and are offering free admission, hoping to attract more attendees in a time of slashed travel budgets and increased competition from similar shows.

• Dell bundling open source applications for SMBs

  Dell is planning to offer small and medium businesses (SMBs) globally pre-configured bundles of hardware and open source software to run their businesses, according to an executive at the company.

• Wikipedia drops GNU in favor of Creative Commons license

  The Wikimedia Foundation will change the terms under which it licenses the content in Wikipedia, the organization said Thursday.

• Cisco settles lawsuit with Free Software Foundation

  Cisco Systems will appoint a director to ensure that its Linksys products comply with the terms of free software licenses, and in return the Free Software Foundation will dismiss its lawsuit against the networking giant, the parties said on Wednesday.

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  SugarCRM chief steps down

  The CEO of open-source customer-relationship-management software vendor SugarCRM has stepped down.

• PostgreSQL 8.4 goes into beta, ups performance

  The PostgreSQL open source database project has released a beta of the upcoming version 8.4 release with a significant focus on performance improvements.

• KOffice preps version 2.0 with first release candidate

  The open source KOffice project has announced the availability of the first release candidate of the next generation, version 2.0, which may be the last release before the final 2.0.