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VISTAGY Announces New Seat Design Environment(TM) Powered by EnCapta(R); New software for engineering automotive seat (The Auto Channel) - WALTHAM, Mass.--July 20, 2006--VISTAGY, Inc., a leading global provider of specialized engineering software, today announced the release of its Seat Design Environment(TM) (SDE), the newest member of VISTAGY's family of commercial-off-the-shelf specialized engineering environments, powered by EnCapta(R). The SDE is the first specialized software application specifically tailored to address the

HP doubles software with US$4.5bn raid on Mercury (ITP.net) - HP is to acquire management software provider Mercury Interactive for US$4.5 billion, a move which will double HP’s software business and add to its capabilities in application management, application delivery, IT governance and service-oriented architecture.

Linux Improves Footing in Software Market (TechNewsWorld.com) - When IBM introduced a version of Lotus Notes that runs on the desktop computers using the Linux operating system last month, it was a sign of confidence that open source software is gaining market traction. Lotus Notes, the popular collaboration and e-mail software, has operated on Windows machines for 16 years and Apple's Macintosh computers for more than a decade.

Free Software Advocates Defend Proposed GPL Changes (Linux Pipeline) - Members of the Free Software Foundation respond to criticism of proposed changes to the GPL, from Linux creator Linus Torvalds and others; the revisions, they say, simply clarify the same principles that have always defined previous versions of the popular open-source license.

Back to Basics With Mac-Based Retro Writing Software (TechNewsWorld.com) - I'm writing this column on a Mac-based imitation of a 1970s green screen terminal. Hog Bay Software's WriteRoom -- a free program for Mac OS X -- advertises "distraction free writing" as its principal virtue: Less is more. In WriteRoom's default full-screen mode, there are no menus, toolbars or ribbons.

Six Indian software companies join ISA SOFTWARE (ZDNet India) - The Itanium Solutions Alliance (ISA) which is a non profit organization and global community of hardware, operating system and application vendors enlisted six Indian software companies - i-flex Solutions, Lifetree Convergence, Mithi Software Technologies, Nucleus Software Exports, Ramco Systems and Subex Azure as new members of the Alliance in India.

Sibelius flogged to US software giant (Drobe.co.uk) - Top music notation software Sibelius was bought on the cheap this week by an American video editing giant. Avid Technology, who produce the Digidesign range of software, as well as the M-Audio selection of keyboards and microphones, snapped up Sibelius for £12.2 million.

VirtuosoWorks Releases Saxphone Sound Expansion Kit For Notion Software (Harmony Central) - VirtuosoWorks, Inc., makers of NOTION™ music composition and performance software, has released the Saxophone Sound Expansion Kit. This new sound kit expands the company's library to six titles, adding new sounds and techniques to the standard orchestra that ships with NOTION software.

Software firm tidies up (San Jose Mercury News) - Business software company Mercury Interactive has made a massive effort to clean itself up in the wake of a scandal over allegations that its executives backdated stock options.

BT Replaces GE with Cerner as NHS Software Supplier (CBR via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) - BT Group confirmed recent rumors that it was replacing GE Healthcare with competitor Cerner Corp as the software supplier for its contract with the UK National Health Service to install electronic health records in the London region. BT announced the news this week in a brief statement, which stated that the transition should be complete by the fall.