OASIS Launches OpenDocument XML.org, OASIS (Press Release) Digium Continues Market Disruption with New Appliance, Digium (Press Release) Pentaho Announces Software Quality Reports for Bugzilla, Pentaho (Press Release) Linspire Offers Cash Incentive for Pre-Installing Linux on Desktop Computers, Linspire (Press Release) Linux wins over new fans, Sydney Morning Herald, Louisa Hearn (Article) Serving Non-Profits: A Case [...]

A few days ago, alarm:clock made reference to SpikeSource raising $21M US in a Series B funding round. Thanks to Dave Rosenberg at InfoWorld’s Open Sources Blog for bringing this to my attention. A representative of SpikeSource has confirmed that it has closed its Series B funding round, but the total is actually $24M US. [...]

Vyatta Secures $7.5 Million in Series A Funding, Vyatta (Press Release) Flock CEO steps down, Private Equity Week (Article) Former SUSE president joins Collax board, Linux-Watch, Steven Vaughan-Nichols (Article) Promise from Microsoft not to sue over standards, ZDNet UK, Matthew Broersma (Article) Eclipse director: Open source development bests proprietary, SearchOpenSource.com, Jack Loftus (Article) Goodwill is [...]

Trolltech Announces Pricing and Availability for Qtopia Greenphone / Gains Widespread Community Support (Press Releases) EnterpriseDB Significantly Expands Partner Program (Press Release) Sourcefire Expands Board of Directors with Addition of Veteran Industry and Military Leaders (Press Release) LinuxWorld San Francisco Keynote Presentations Sun’s plan for open-source chips bears fruit, News.com, Stephen Shankland (Article) XenEnterprise 3.0 [...]

The coolest thing I saw at LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco last month was the Trolltech Qtopia Greenphone. The Greenphone is a Linux-based mobile phone, based on the company’s Qtopia Phone Edition platform. It is targeted at software developers who are looking to bring their applications to the emerging Linux phone market. Today at the CTIA [...]

As part of our ongoing open source research work, we are launching a new survey today. The purpose of this short survey is to collect information on the role of cost savings in open source software adoption. These survey results will be used in a report by our 451 CAOS (Commercial Adoption of Open Source) [...]

Linux Networx Completes $37 Million Funding Round, Linux Networx (Press Release) AlterPoint ‘Open Network Initiative’ to Advance Network Management Software, AlterPoint (Press Release) Webyog Contributes the Source Code of Their Flagship Product SQLyog to the Open Source Community, Webyog Softworks (Press Release) KnowledgeTree Open Source Document Management Software exceeds 200,000 downloads, JamWarehouse (Press Release) Microsoft [...]

Continuent Ships uni/cluster for MySQL / PostgreSQL , Continuent (Press Releases) When open source is not enough, The Register, Nick Kew (Article) Ludd vs. open source, ZDNet, Dana Blankenhorn (Blog) On Red Hat and Commercial Open Source, JM’s Good Times, John Mark Walker (Blog) JRuby Steps Into the Sun, Headius, Charles Nutter (Blog) GOSCON 2006 [...]

IBM Unveils New Offerings for the Open Source Community, IBM (Press Release) Red Hat Champions a New Public Forum For Software Companies to Issue Official Statements on Vulnerabilities, Red Hat (Press Release) Eclipse Foundation Approves Aperi Storage Management Project, Eclipse Foundation (Press Release) XenSource Names Gordon Mangione as Senior Vice President Product Operations, XenSource (Press [...]

As you’ve noticed, I started posting daily link lists – ’451 CAOS Links.’ As an open source analyst, part of my daily routine is keeping up with the various open source activities by vendors, communities, and individuals. Thanks to my trusty RSS reader, my bookmarks, and the calls and emails from various PR reps (to [...]

Laszlo Systems Secures $8 Million in Series C Funding, Laszlo Systems (Press Release) Funambol Announces Bounties for Its Community Code Sniper Program, Funambol (Press Release) DLT Solutions and Emu Partner to Provide Open Source Systems Management to Government, Emu Software (Press Release) Google Rereleases Open-Source OCR Software, NewsFactor (Article) Open source breathes life into Java, [...]

Eclipse Foundation Selects Black Duck Software to Review Contributed Code (Press Release) openQRM Downloads Nearly Triple in Less Than 90 Days (Press Release) As venture dollars flow to OSS companies, CEOs urged to be picky (Article) Report on the Fourth International GPLv3 Conference (Article) Hackers Still Drive Open-source Development, Says Red Hat Exec (Article) It’s [...]

The New Barbarians (Article) Maintainer’s resignation highlights problems in Debian project (Article) Review: The Linux-based Motorola ROKR-E2 (Article) New report says support needs of enterprise users changing (Article) Project Icebreaker : DB and Linux as Appliance (Blog) Another win for mobile open source (Blog)