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CIO: "To fill a requirement for flexible content and management and e-commerce, Melbourne-based software engineer Stephen McDonald has released two open source projects built with the Django framework."

For those of us who struggle with the finer points of anti-inflammatory email communication, Canadian-based software company, Lymbix recently introduced ToneCheck, free, online-software to help us check ourselves before we wreck ourselves (to paraphrase the wise words of Ice Cube).

The email plug-in is currently available for use with Microsoft Out

The Register: "The Danish Parliament has agreed to ditch some Microsoft-based software in favour of the ODF standard from April next year."

InternetNews: "What does building and maintaining Linux-based software appliances have to do with datacenter automation? A whole lot, according to appliance vendor rPath."

Fast Company: "What is surprising is that the computer giant is angling for market share in Africa and the developing world, introducing a cloud- and premise-based software package running on open-source Linux programs instead of Microsoft Windows"

Linux Pro Magazine: "360,000 IBM workers have been told to stop using Microsoft Office and switch to the Open Office-based software Symphony."

On the Ibuildings techPortal website today they've released the latest episode in their series of talks given at this year's Dutch PHP Conference.

This episode is a talk from Ben Ramsey about REST architecture.

Softpedia: "Despite previous rumors, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant Microsoft has officially confirmed that its next-generation Windows 7 operating system will not provide consumers with support for ARM-based devices."

Alistair Croll, a principal analyst for consulting coalition BitCurrent, argues that moving to Internet-based Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, "won't eliminate work [but will] just change the work," for IT administrators.