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Trust, support are issues for open source software (BizJournals) - Open Source Software (OSS) has gone from an underground group of hard-core technology geeks to capturing the attention and energy of some of today's largest software companies.

Va., firm conclude software deal talks (Richmond Times-Dispatch) - The state has quietly wrapped up closed-door negotiations with a Canadian-owned company for a multimillion-dollar, multiyear software contract for Virginia's computer systems.

Software Notebook: Designing people-friendly systems (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) - Bill Buxton, a well-known computer scientist recently hired in Microsoft's research unit, wants to change how people interact with computers, and how companies design software.

Software to sports to security (River Valley Business Report) - After selling both Winnebago Software Co. and Miken Sports in Caledonia, Minn., in the past six years, Jeb Griffith’s entrepreneurial spirit continues.

California Demands Repairs to Software for Voting Machines (New York Times) - Software problems with vote counts and verification surfaced in the state's special election in November.

Software shifts gear / Upstarts try to outrun high-tech 'dinosaurs' as on-demand subscriptions gain ground (San Francisco Chronicle) - It had all the typically brash, overblown bravado of the Internet-era startup. When Marc Benioff launched his company, Salesforce.com, at a hype-filled event in San Francisco in 2000, he pronounced that his company would bring about "the end of software."...

Software shifts / Service model takes over in Silicon Valley (San Francisco Chronicle) - Trying to determine the birth of the on-demand software movement is as difficult as pinpointing the beginnings of any evolutionary process. Who knows what fish first crawled from the primordial ooze to start the business of walking? The phrase "on...

Tennessee to Tax Software as Property? (Slashdot) - thatkidkel writes "The Chattanooga Times Free Press is reporting that 'a state board is proposing a sweeping change to make computer software used in business subject to property taxes, a move that some business leaders contend could drive up costs and hurt job growth in Tennessee.'"

IBM pays $865 million for video software firm (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette) - IBMCorp. has agreed to acquire Micromuse Inc., which makes software that manages video and voice traffic on computer networks, for about $865 million in cash.

PTC turnaround: Software company adds over 800 (BizJournals) - NEEDHAM -- As Parametric Technology Corp. reached its nadir two years ago, fellow Massachusetts icon EMC Corp. engineered the beginnings of its own turnaround with its $1.7 billion acquisition of Documentum.