App dev: After his update on Ruby on Rails IDEs Martin Heller is back with more free options. Such as NetBeans 6.0 Milestone 9, Ruby In Steel’s Personal Edition, and Komodo Edit, sibling to none other than the Komodo IDE he looked at earlier in the week. From the Test Center: It’s not the dream-come-true single product that encrypts data on all operating systems and media, but “PGP’s suite of encryption products offers a competitive solution to protect a variety of content on Windows,” begins Roger Grimes, who focuses on PGP’s newest NetShare, version 9.6. The software allows files on local and remote SMB shares to be encrypted. “On its own, it’s a solid encryption product and should help secure shared files and folders. However, most of NetShare’s enterprise functionality is provided by PGP Universal Server.” Read Grimes’ rating and recommendations in the full review. The news beat: The long-debated GPL v3 is coming on Friday, says the Free Software Foundation, a pronouncement that sparks the question of who exactly will use it. IBM claims that the final edition of DB2 Viper 2 will become available by year’s end, after entering public beta testing last week. And BEA Systems is ready to lock down code for Workshop 10.1 which according to one executive, “leaves the shop Friday. It’s done.” Software Development