Scali Raises $3.5 Million to Drive Continued Growth, Names Jack Kay CEO, Scali (Press Release) VA Software Sets First Quarter Fiscal 2007 Financial Results Release Date and Conference Call, VA Software (Press Release) Oracle must eat Red Hat or fork, says Ubuntu man, The Register, Ashlee Vance (Article) Linux provider Red Hat says open source [...]

Novell Outlines Details of Agreement with Microsoft, Novell (Press Release) Canonical and Sun Expand Joint Ubuntu/Sun Presence in the Enterprise and Open Source Communities, Sun Microsytems / Canonical (Press Release) Red Hat and VMware Expand Relationship to Accelerate Open and Interoperable Virtualization, Red Hat / VMWare (Press Release) Cleversafe Project Continues Expansion With New Desktop [...]

Adobe and Mozilla Foundation to Open Source Flash Player Scripting Engine, Adobe / Mozilla Foundation (Press Release) Eclipse Celebrates Five Years as an Open Source Community and Ecosystem, Eclipse Foundation (Press Release) Greenplum and SitePen Bring Real-time Visualization to the Web, Greenplum / SitePen (Press Release) OpenMoko Announces the World’s First Integrated Open Source Mobile [...]

XenSource Announces High Performance Virtualization of Microsoft Windows and Linux Based on the Xen Hypervisor, XenSource (Press Release) Simula Labs Launches Hosted Delivery Platform to Enable Enterprise Open Source Adoption, Simula Labs (Press Release) Compiere Highlights Partner Achievements, Outlines Framework for Company and Product Direction for 2007, Compiere (Press Release) Currenex Announces OpenSTP/FX Industry Initiative, [...]

We’ve been saying here and elsewhere that the Microsoft-Novell and Oracle-Red Hat announcements have been market changing events. Some ripples are at the fore: Microsoft has siezed an opportunity to simultaneously head off Oracle and irritate Red Hat. Novell has turned its greatest weakness (the spectre of irrelevancy as recently as last week) into what [...]

We don’t want to make too much of this, but if we’re looking for reasons why Novell is facing challenges we can say that one is that the left hand doesn’t watch the right. Either that or Novell is ambivalent about what it’s doing internally, because its Analyst Newsletter, sent at 7 am PT, leads [...]

Alliance Statement On Microsoft/Novell Collaboration Regarding Document Format Compatibility , ODF Alliance (Press Release) OpenVZ Available Now on Latest Linux Kernel, SWsoft (Press Release) Akaza Announces the 3,000th download of OpenClinica Open Source Clinical Trial Software, Akaza Research (Press Release) Ballmer Invites Patent Talks with Competing Linux Vendors, eWeek, John Pallatto (Article) Linux Advocates Wary [...]

Red Hat has been busy for the past two weeks. First, it was “Unfakeable Linux” and now it’s “Unthinkable.” Last week, I said that the biggest loser from the Oracle announcement was Novell, not Red Hat. One week later, Novell partners with Microsoft and changes the rules. Oracle should be on the phone to Red [...]

Microsoft and Novell have announced a set of deals bunched together to create one of the most significant developments in the Linux versus Microsoft saga: technical collaboration, a so-called ‘intellectual property bridge’ (I-won’t-sue-you, you-won’t-sue me), and a joint support and services deal designed to counter the Oracle-Red Hat announcement of last week. As this was [...]

I don’t travel much – I really don’t. I may travel 8 to 10 times per year, and this is light compared to many of the ‘air warriors’ I know out there. Yet, the three most significant events in open source this year – Red Hat’s acquisition of JBoss, Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux, and Microsoft’s partnership [...]

Microsoft and Novell Announce Broad Collaboration on Windows and Linux Interoperability and Support, Microsoft / Novell (Press Release) Novell/Microsoft deal: good for Novell, good for Linux?, Linux-Watch, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Article) Ballmer: Deal with Novell doesn’t mean total Linux embrace, Computerworld, Robert McMillan (Article) Microsoft, Novell in Linux Pact, Red Herring (Article) Behind the upsurge [...]

Motorola Announces Intent to Develop Java ME Stack Under Apache License Version 2.0 , Motorola (Press Release) NetBeans Community Reaches Latest Milestone With General Availability of Open Source NetBeans 5.5 Integrated Development Environment, Sun Microsystems (Press Release) rPath Supports Virtual Appliances for Xen 3.0.3, rPath (Press Release) Time to Short Open Source?, The Motley Fool, [...]