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Submission + - Italian parliament bets house on SuSE Linux

Submitted by AnotherDaveB on Friday July 13, 2007 @03:50AM

AnotherDaveB writes: ITALY'S parliament is about to undertake Europe's largest governmental migration yet to open sauce. The IT department of the Italian parliament presented plans on Wednesday to begin migrating some 3500 desktop PCs, including those of its 630 MPs, away from Windows to SuSE Linux starting this September. The Camera dei deputati will also run SuSE on all of its two hundred servers.

Submission + - Skelta participates in Microsoft Worldwide Partner (skelta.com)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Friday July 13, 2007 @03:42AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Skelta Software showcased its new product, Skelta SharePoint Accelerator 2007 at the Microsoft Worldwide partner conference which is currently underway in Denver, Colorado. Powered by Skelta BPM.NET 2007, Skelta's award-winning BPM workflow solution, Skelta SharePoint Accelerator 2007 provides a comprehensive suite of business process management features for SharePoint Server and WSS 3.0. Seamlessly integrating with SharePoint and other Microsoft technologies, Skelta SharePoint Accelerator extends advanced BPM functionality to SharePoint 2007 to create a powerful integrated platform for collaboration, business intelligence, enterprise content management and strategic business solutions. Key features include a web-based process modeler with Visio-type interfaces within SharePoint, initiation of BPM workflows from document libraries, lists and content types, Wizards for process creation with option to save processes as templates, a rich set of SharePoint actions that inherit and manipulate SharePoint metadata during a workflow process, Web services and XML for integrating SharePoint forms with business processes and business applications, Workflow initiation on all SharePoint events including "ING" events and option to invoke Windows Workflow Foundation activities within Skelta Process Modeler. Skelta SharePoint Accelerator 2007 is business user-friendly and facilitates creation of an automated BPM environment without significant investments in software development. About Skelta Software Skelta Software is an innovative software product company specializing in enterprise-wide Business Process Management (BPM) and Workflow solutions for small to large-sized businesses worldwide. Its flagship product, Skelta BPM.NET 2006 is a BPM workflow software that is built on cutting-edge Microsoft .NET, XML, and Web services technologies. It is also the world's first embeddable workflow engine. Skelta enables business users and developers to design and deploy workflow applications using software tools with which they are already familiar. In addition, Skelta enables businesses to leverage on their existing investments in Microsoft technologies such as InfoPath, BizTalk Server, and SharePoint. Skelta's products have won several awards at industry forums such as Microsoft 2006 Regional Winning Customer Award, Microsoft Tech-Ed 2007 Attendee Choice Award , Finalist in 2007 International Business Awards (Stevie Awards), Best of Tech Ed award in the Software Components category and NASSCOM IT Innovation 2005 Award. Skelta has also been named one of Asia's top 100 companies by Red Herring magazine and acknowledged as one of the fastest growing technology companies in India and Asia Pacific region by winning Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India & Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2006 Awards. For more information on Skelta and its products, visit www.skelta.com. Skelta may also be contacted on phone at +1 (703) 652-8359 and on email at sales@skelta.com. For Media enquiries, contact: Kalpa Shah, VP — Marketing Tel: 91 (80) 2552-2996 email: publicrelations@skelta.com"

Matrox's Extio Reviewed 204

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday July 13, 2007 @03:32AM from the serious-kvm-solutions dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like Matrox isn't as dead as some of us thought. This box of tricks lets you connect four displays up to a PC that's 250 meters away. All the graphic data is sent down a fiber optic cable to the Matrox box that then connects to the screens. To the end user it feels like they're working directly on the PC, but the PC can be locked away somewhere safe."

Submission + - Free Windows Installer (MSI) authoring tool (caphyon.com)

Submitted by Todd G. Erickson on Friday July 13, 2007 @02:44AM

Todd G. Erickson writes: Advanced Installer Professional 5.1 is a Windows Installer authoring tool which enables developers and system administrators to easily build reliable MSI packages. Advanced Installer runs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista, and the install packages it creates run on all Microsoft Windows 9x/ME/NT/2k/XP/Vista operating systems.

Windows Installer is a powerful, but very complex technology. Mastering it on your own takes months of hard work. That's where Advanced Installer comes to help. It creates a high level abstraction on top of the underlying technology. With a clean, simple user interface, each operation is logical and intuitive. Everything is done in the user interface, without complicated scripts to learn or arcane database tables to edit.

Advanced Installer is built on standard, open formats. The project files are saved as XML files for easy integration with source control systems. Advanced Installer is FREE for the simplest, most common usages. It also offers three additional licensing levels for more sophisticated needs: Professional, For Java and Enterprise.

What's new in Advanced Installer 5.1

The 5.1 version adds support for sequencing patches, specifying custom connection strings for running SQL scripts, configuring different install parameters per each build and the ability to permit selecting the language when installing multi-language packages.

The Repackager gets improved scanning filters, support for applications requiring reboot, snapshot diff export and comparison. An option to wait for other operations before continuing was added, allowing repackaging multiple installs into a single one.

Two major new time-saving enhancements are searching and editing multiple components and features at the same time and the ability to recognize hard-coded paths and replace them with Windows Installer properties when importing from Registry or INI files.

- Patch Sequencing
- Language selection in bootstrapper for multi-language installers
- Support configuring different "Install Parameters" for each build
- Custom SQL connection string
- Replace hard-coded paths with properties when importing from registry or INI files

The application can be downloaded from:
http://www.advancedinstaller.com/download.html

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