SYDNEY--8 Oct--AsiaNet/InfoQuest DEFENDORY INTERNATIONAL... ATHENS - HELLENIC DEFENSE & SECURITY, ISI Hellas S.A.,IVECO SpA. DefenceVehicles, Kaman Precision Products - Fuzing, NACRE AS, Siemens RadiationMonitoring, SPACE CONSULTING SA, SPECIAL PROJECTS, SSMART S.A. and SignaalHellas S.A., Sunair Electronics, Symetrics Industries, TECHNOPOL INTERNATIONAL,a.s., THEON SENSORS S.A., UPS of Greece, Inc., WFEL and FIREXPRESS areexhibiting at Defendory International 2008, Oct.7 - 11 in Athens, Greece, atthe Hellenikon ExhibitionCenter.http://www.defendory.gr/home.htm FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTNsecurities issues amounting to a total of US$25 million on October 17, 2008 ata redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest.http://www.fanniemae.com BRAZILIAN GNU/LINUX... SAO PAULO - There are more than 1.5 million open source Insigne OS users onPCs manufactured by SEMP Toshiba, Kelow, Kennex, Mirax and Qbex, and theexpectation is to reach 2 million in 2008. When Brazil announced its DigitalInclusion program called "Computador para Todos" (Computer for Everyone)in November 2005, the goal was to offer the population computers with a freeoperating system and computer programs for Internet access, sending/receivinge-mails, and listening and recording music, among others.http://www.insignesoftware.com INFORMEX CONFERENCE... PRINCETON, N.J. - Informex today announced that it will hold a GlobalSourcing Summit for the Pharmaceutical Industry, November 10-11, at Princeton,New Jersey, USA. The two-day Conference will address the next generation ofoperational and business strategies in the field of global pharmaceuticalprocurement. David Kinnear, President & CEO of the Global Sourcing Council,will chair the inaugural conference and host a panel of distinguished speakerswith vision and insight into the future of global sourcing, including thosefrom Johnson & Johnson, Bristol Myers Squibb, Genentech, Boehringer Ingelheimand Roche Molecular Diagnostics.http://www.informex.com DBCT QUINTIQ... MELBOURNE - Quintiq, a leading provider of Advanced Planning and Scheduling(APS) solutions, today announced that Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal Pty Ltd.(DBCT P/L) has chosen Quintiq to provide a purpose-built APS solution tooptimise its current capacity capabilities and support projected expansion overthe next decade. Quintiq will implement the Quintiq Application Suite to fitDBCT's specific bulk commodities planning and scheduling needs and integratewith DBCT P/L's other IT systems.http://www.quintiq.com. AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.