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In the latest big win for Linux and open source, infrastructure service provider VeriSign has decided to migrate 2,000 of its high-performance Unix servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel in a move the company says will help reduce its operating expenses.

The 2,000 servers to be migrated operate across all of VeriSign's business units. The migration to Linux has already started with VeriSign's Naming and Directory Services business unit and with the deployment of Oracle on Linux for several corporate applications. The balance of the migration will take place over the next 18 months, which should lend another doubling of processing power, Dave Pool, vice president of infrastructure engineering at VeriSign, said on Tuesday.

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Red Hat Inc. and Oracle Corp. will tighten their relationship as the companies work together on the next version of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux server.

Officials at the OracleWorld conference here last week said Oracle will continue to contribute development work and code in areas such as management, clustering and enterprise database to the open-source and Linux community in association with companies such as Red Hat and SuSE Linux A.G.

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GAIM 0.68 and Sylpheed 0.9.5 RPMs are now available for Red Hat Linux 9 at FreshRPMs

GAIM 0.68
A Gtk2 based multiprotocol instant messaging client. Gaim allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols, including AIM (Oscar and TOC), ICQ, IRC, Yahoo!, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Napster, and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just load the plugin for it.

Gaim supports many common features of other clients, as well as many unique features, such as perl scripting and C plugins.

Gaim is NOT affiliated with or endorsed by AOL.
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Sylpheed 0.9.5
A full-featured GTK+ based fast e-mail client. Sylpheed is an e-mail client (and news reader) based on GTK+, running on X Window System, and aiming for quick responses, a graceful and sophisticated interface, easy configuration, intuitive operation and abundant features.

The appearance and interface are similar to some popular e-mail clients for Windows, such as Outlook Express, Becky!, and Datula. The interface is also designed to emulate the mailers on Emacsen, and almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard.
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