As we enter the holiday break, the volume of news announcement, media articles, and blog activity, will drop dramatically. Therefore, the daily 451 CAOS Links (and all other blog postings) will be on hiatus until Tuesday, January 2nd. This also will give me the opportunity to focus on the completion of the third CAOS Report [...]

Concurrent, the suppliers of real time technology in Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time edition, announced today that it has secured a $10m line of credit from Silicon Valley Bank for future expansion activities (press release). Concurrent is a publicly-traded company (NASDAQ: CCUR), hence the line of credit and not a VC funding round. The [...]

Solid Information Technology, best known to the open source community as the providers of a new enterprise storage engine for MySQL, announced this week that it secured four million euros for the expansion of its open source initiatives (press release). The investors participating in this financing were Apax Partners and CapMan.
Although Solid is based [...]

CIGNEX Technologies, an open source systems integrator based in Santa Clara, CA, announced a few weeks ago that it had closed a round of funding, although the amount was not publicly disclosed (press release). Participating in the round were Apar Investments, Basil International Investments, and Honorex Investments Holdings.
It was just over a year ago that [...]

Concurrent Announces $10 Million Credit Facility, Concurrent (Press Release)
ObjectWeb embarks on risky transition, InfoWorld, James Niccolai (Article)
Open Sources Reflections on 2006 (Matt’s Version), AC/OS, Matt Asay (Blog)
Red Hat: Savings of $5 to $10 per server not motivation to leave us, ZDNet Between the Lines Blog, Larry Dignan (Blog)

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Red Hat Reports Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2007 Results, Red Hat (Press Release)
Mozilla Beefs Up Security in Firefox 2.0, LinuxInsider, Jay Lyman (Article)
Jeremy Allison quits Novell in protest of Microsoft-Novell pact, ZDNet All about Microsoft Blog, Mary Jo Foley (Blog)
Ballmer’s Macaca moment, ZDNet Open Source Blog, Dana Blankenhorn (Blog)
Red Hat: What me worry?, ZDNet Between [...]

More Customer Momentum Around the Microsoft-Novell Agreement, Novell / Microsoft (Press Release)
JasperSoft announces reaches 5,000 customers as momentum for Open Source Business Intelligence Accelerates, JasperSoft (Press Release)
OpenMFG Follows ERP Upgrade with Open Source Report Writer, OpenMFG (Press Release)
ZRM for MySQL is Now Available for Ubuntu, Zmanda (Press Release)
Trolltech releases Qtopia 4.2.0, Trolltech (Press Release)
Microsoft Hands [...]

BadVista.org: FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Windows Vista, Free Software Foundation (Press Release)
Open Source Technology At The Application Layer A Key Focus At LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit, IDG World Expo (Press Release)
SpikeSource Appoints Three New Vice Presidents, SpikeSource (Press Release)
Free Competitor to Microsoft Office Releases New Version, OpenOffice.org (Press Release)
MontaVista and Atheros Deliver High Performance SDIO [...]

On 25 October 2005 Sourcefire Inc, which makes internal security products and sponsors the open source Snort intrusion detection engine invented by its CTO, Marty Roesch, filed its intent to go public with the SEC. We’ve all been watching the prospective IPO with bated breath.
Sourcefire would be the first security IPO for some time, and [...]

SugarCRM Announces 1,000 Customers and 1,000,000 Open Source Downloads, SugarCRM (Press Release)
solidDB for MySQL Sets Performance Record in Public Benchmark, Solid Information Technology (Press Release)
Scalix and SugarCRM Integrate Messaging and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for Linux and Open Source Customers, Scalix / SugarCRM (Press Release)
Alfresco Announces First Embedded Enterprise Content Management System, Alfresco Software (Press [...]

Solera Networks Announces Open Source License for DataEcho Web Forensics Software, Solera Networks (Press Release)
Software Freedom Law Center Files Brief with Supreme Court Arguing Against Software Patents, Software Freedom Law Center (Press Release)
Is XenSource Virtualization Ready to Go Wide?, LinuxInsider, Jay Lyman (Article)
The cloudy future of mobile Linux, Computerworld, David Haskin (Article)
Financial Services: fed up [...]

IBM, Top Universities Continue Software Intellectual Property Reform, IBM (Press Release)
Google Code Features Pentaho, Pentaho (Press Release)
The Free Standards Group to Standardize New Accessibility Interfaces, Free Standards Group (Press Release)
Venture Dollars Flow to Open Source, TheStreet.com, Bill Snyder (Article)
Why FOSS isn’t on activist agendas, Linux.com, Bruce Byfield (Article)
What Can’t Open Source Achieve in the Next [...]

Liferay Unveils Liferay Portal 4.2, New Features, Liferay (Press Release)
JBoss Boosts Web 2.0 Development with New Update to JBoss Seam, Red Hat (Press Release)
IBM and Yahoo! Unveil Free Enterprise Search Software, IBM / Yahoo! (Press Release)
Freeing a MMORPG - Free Ryzom, Free Software Foundation (Press Release)
Newsmaker:  A look inside Google’s open-source kitchen, News.com, Joris Evers [...]

Intalio to Release Entire BPMS Under Open Source License, Intalio (Press Release)
Red Hat, Inc. Marks 11th Transfer to NYSE Group, Inc. from Nasdaq in 2006, NYSE (Press Release)
Pentaho Announces Software Quality Reports for JIRA, Pentaho (Press Release)
Eclipse Mylar Introduces Major New Innovation for Developer Productivity, Eclipse Foundation (Press Release)
Vyatta Opens Router to Debian Application Universe, [...]

I received an email yesterday from Alexander Muse, the CEO of Spur, concerning a potential problem arising from his open source release of the Big in Japan social media tools. All of the Big in Japan social media tools were released under the open source GNU General Public License (GPL) in November. One of these [...]

As of this morning, Red Hat’s NASDAQ ticker symbol, RHAT, has been retired as the company moves its public stock listing to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) using the ticker symbol, RHT. Take a look at the new Yahoo! Finance page for Red Hat (NYSE:RHT). The market hasn’t yet opened this morning, but I [...]

CIGNEX Raises Expansion Capital, CIGNEX Technologies (Press Release)
OpenLogic Launches Upgrade to OpenLogic Enterprise, OpenLogic (Press Release)
Covalent Technologies Adds Terracotta Clustering Capabilities to Enterprise Ready Server, Covalent Technologies / Terracotta (Press Release)
Sun Announces Revolutionary Version of Java Technology – Java Platform Standard Edition 6, Sun Microsystems (Press Release)
Novell Ships openSUSE 10.2, Novell (Press Release)
Mozilla Firefox Headed [...]

TimeSys Board of Directors Appoints Joseph J. Raffa Interim CEO, TimeSys (Press Release)
realMethods Expands Its Open Source Scope, realMethods (Press Release)
DHS gears up for research phase of open source bug hunt, Linux.com, Michael Stutz (Article)
Opinion: Five reasons why you should never use PostgreSQL — ever, SearchOpenSource.com, W. Jason Gilmore (Article)
Editor’s Note: Which Road To Take?, [...]

Continuent ships new uni/cluster for MySQL and uni/cluster for PostgreSQL solutions, Continuent (Press Release)
Open-Xchange Announces Partnership with MySQL AB, Open-Xchange (Press Release)
OpenReports Releases OpenReports 2.1, OpenReports (Press Release)
Survey Finds Red Hat Customers Willing To Stay With Company if it Cuts Prices, SeekingAlpha, Eric Savitz (Article)
Mission Accomplished: Do We Need the New OSDL?, Linux Magazine, Bryan [...]

Sourcefire Launches Free Security Tool to Protect Microsoft Office Applications, Sourcefire (Press Release)
U.S. Department of Defense, Backcountry.com and SourceForge.net Join The Line-Up of Case Study Presentations at LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit, IDG World Expo (Press Release)
Sun Announces the Latest in Open Source Tools with the Availability of NetBeans Visual Web Pack and NetBeans C/C++ Development Pack, [...]