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With English as the dominant language used by Linux developers in much of the world, Japanese and Chinese software and hardware developers have a huge hurdle to overcome. Having enthusiastic attendees at Linux symposiums staged in Japan does help, but culture and language differences still get in the way.

The worldwide open source community shares a common overall goal: better software through collaboration and peer review. It's difficult enough to achieve this task even when most of the participants share a common language. Building bridges between different parts of the world -- especially between Eastern and Western societies -- adds an entirely new element to the equation.

Developers of open source database, MySQL AB has announced recently that it has plans to release alpha and beta versions of several new Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) products this month.

This includes 'release candidate' of MySQL 5.1 -- a major new upgrade of the world’s most popular open source database server.

The announcement was made during the inaugural Japanese MySQL Users Conference.

"This wave of new technology represents the widest range of new products in any month in our company’s history -- innovative, new ways for users to extend their database applications," said Marten Mickos, MySQL AB’s CEO.

He added, "We're proud to work in tandem with our open source community to continuously release, evaluate and improve new MySQL features -- so that we can all benefit from the highest-quality software possible."

All of the following GPL-licensed products are scheduled to be available for download by the end of September.

MySQL 5.1 Community Server
The upcoming version of MySQL includes database partitioning capabilities to improve performance and simplify management of very large applications.

Falcon Database Engine
MySQL’s newest transactional database engine, being designed for large-memory, multi-threaded and multi-core CPU applications such as high-volume Web sites. Falcon is available in a special preview version of MySQL 6.0.

MySQL Proxy
A software program that sits between a client and MySQL server(s) that can monitor, analyze, or transform their communication. MySQL Proxy’s flexibility can address many common uses -- such as query analysis, filtering and modification, and much, much more.

MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1
A new high-performance MySQL ODBC driver that provides client access to a MySQL database using the industry-standard Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) API

IEC Technical Committee 100, audio, video and multimedia systems and equipment company, is introducing new standards to link the two different communications networks established for the household appliances and audio visual equipment.

This new ability will network traditional household appliances with personal computers and audio-visual equipment, which will offer such possibilities as your television screen displaying the fact that the washing machine has finished washing your clothes or turning on an air conditioner from your personal computer.

It would be the first time in the world that major IT firms like Oracle, IBM and NEC join hands to market equipment running the free software, the Nikkei newspaper said.
Major information technology firms, including Oracle Corp., IBM Corp. and NEC Corp., will set up a consortium to sell servers and systems running the Linux operating system in Japan, a financial daily said on Thursday.
It would be the first time in the world that major IT firms join hands to market equipment running the free software, the Nikkei newspaper said.

Worldwide Internet Audience has Grown 10 Percent in Last Year, According to comScore Networks

India, China and Russia Experience Highest Audience Growth Rates Year-over-Year; Canada, Israel, and Korea Log the Most Time Online

comScore Networks, a leader in measuring the digital age, today announced that 747 million people, age 15+, used the Internet worldwide in January 2007, a 10-percent increase versus January 2006. Among the top 15 countries (ranked by penetration), Internet audiences in India, the Russian Federation and China increased the most in 2006, growing 33, 21 and 20 percent, respectively. China now represents the second-largest Internet population in the world, with 86.8 million users, after the U.S., which rose 2 percent year-over-year to 153.4 million users age 15 or older in January 2007.

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