In an effort to reduce costs, municipal authorities in the Veneto region around the Italian city of Venice, will change to open source.

The remote package update manager program apt-dater is now available in version 0.7. It performs software updates on a mass of remote hosts.

The latest stable release of the GNU Restricted User Shell (Rush), version 1.5, includes new configuration offerings and a notification feature.

Foomatic is now released in version 4.0. The software creates PDFs, describes external drivers better and includes PPD extensions.

Advisory Check (advchk), a small tool for monitoring installed software security, is now available in version 2.20. It has extended its source feeds and is now supported on HP-UX.

Former president of Novell's EMEA operations Volker Smid has taken over as head of operations at HP in Germany. Javier Colado assumes Smid's old role at Novell.

Sun Microsystems has acquired Belgian company Q-Layer, which specializes in cloud computing.

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