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    The body of Steven Thomas, founder of security software maker Webroot Software, was found dead in Hawaii, some two weeks after he was reported as missing. Thomas was found at the bottom of an almost 1,000-foot cliff in Oahu. According to reports, the 36-year-old millionaire suffered from bipolar disorder and delusions.

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    One automatic programming tool, SciComp, has hit the marketplace and researchers are working on ever more of them, reports Newsweek. For instance, Kestrel Institute, a nonprofit R&D center in Palo Alto, Calif., has created a tool that translates business needs into guidelines a computer can understand. The tool has been used to create software for scheduling cargo deployment for the U.S. military.

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    SourceLabs has extended its Self-Support Suite to include support for the Xen hypervisor. SourceLabs bills its Self-Support Suite as a method to drive down development costs by identifying potential implementation problems and offering resolutions including suggesting open source products.

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  • Oracle seeks to ease BEA clients' worries

    After Oracle purchased BEA Systems it showed the door to overlapping personnel inherited from BEA. This set off worries among BEA customers that Oracle was not planning on supporting BEA software long-term. Yesterday, the company conducted a Webcast in which it outlined plans for the acquired software, some of which will be added immediately to Oracle's line-up while other products will be redesigned.

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