rPath raises an additional $9.1M in funding…Solid shares its 2007 plans for MySQL…Novell launches a training program for Red Hat migrations…and more…

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Digium, which sells open source telephony products based on Asterisk, has named a new CEO (press release). Danny Windham, former president, COO and director of Adtran, has been named to the CEO post. Steve Harvey, former VP of channel sales and competitive service providers for Adtran, has been named VP of worldwide sales. Mark Spencer, [...]

A bunch of Linux supporters just banded together to create the Linux Foundation, hoping to match the development, legal and marketing power behind Microsoft’s Windows. Still, such an entity was not required to give Redmond a black eye this week, as the “Wikipedia affair,” we’ll call it, was more than sufficient to embarrass Microsoft. Only [...]

MySQL announces new enterprise pricing and a record year…Digium names new CEO…Red Hat launches new channel strategy…and more…

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Adobe submits PDF as an open standard…Novell works on open source identity services…Compiere announces a new support offering…and more…

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Patent Office Orders Re-Examination of Blackboard Patent, Software Freedom Law Center (Press Release) Day Launches Extensive Service and Support Offerings for Apache Jackrabbit, Day Software (Press Release) BitRock InstallBuilder 4.0 Released, Adds RPM Generation Support, BitRock (Press Release) Concurrent Computer Corporation Announces Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2007 Financial Results, Concurrent (Press Release) Did Microsoft want [...]

Mobile Leaders Around the World Launch LiMo Foundation, LiMo Foundation (Press Release) Linspire Standardizes Software Installation Across Linux Distributions, Linspire (Press Release) The Microsoft/Novell Deal: Has It Divided The Linux Community?, InformationWeek, Jacqueline Emigh (Article) Cell Phone Giants Unveil Mobile Linux Foundation, eWeek, Henry Kingman (Article) GPL 3: An Open-Source Earthquake?, CRN, Stacy Cowley (Article) [...]

Novell Enhances Linux Development with New Open Source Services, Novell (Press Release) SugarCRM Available to Ubuntu Users, Canonical (Press Release) New Xandros Desktop – Professional Box Now Shipping, Xandros (Press Release) Digium Introduces New Technologies to Enhance Voice Quality and Compatibility in Asterisk Based Solutions, Digium (Press Release) Risk IDS Releases Industry’s First Open Source [...]

Liberty Alliance Announces openLiberty Project, Liberty Alliance (Press Release) GroundWork Exits 2006 with Phenomenal Growth in Revenue and New Customers, GroundWork Open Source (Press Release) OpenClovis Ends Calendar Year 2006 on High Note, OpenClovis (Press Release) Pentaho Announces Significant Customer Adoption in Q4, Pentaho (Press Release) Eclipse Foundation Launches Data Tools Platform 1.0, Eclipse Foundation [...]

New Linux Foundation Launches – Merger of Open Source Development Labs and Free Standards Group, The Linux Foundation (Press Release) Group Formed to Support Linux as Rival to Windows, New York Times, Steve Lohr (Article) Oracle introduces Linux management software, ComputerWorld, China Martens (Article) GroundWork VP Barbagallo: Open Source Taking On the Big Four, LinuxInsider, [...]

Today, the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group (FSG) announced a merger, thereby forming a new organization called The Linux Foundation (press release). Those of us overwhelmed by technology acronyms can move FSG and OSDL into the ‘retired’ column. From the press release… For Linux to remain open and attain the [...]

The birth of a FOSS application, Linux.com, Brice Burgess (Article) Why CIOs Don’t Care About Open Source, CIO – The Open Source Blog, Bernard Golden (Blog) Novell: Skip Vista, use Linux, News.com Open Source and Standards Blog, Stephen Shankland (Blog) Open Source downloads and reciprocal value, InfoWorld Open Source, Dave Rosenberg (Blog) Open Source as [...]

Open Source Leaders From Around the Globe to Meet at Second Annual Think Tank March 8 – 10 at the Silverado Country Club in California Wine Country, The Open Source Think Tank (Press Release) What’s Really Happening With Linux On The Desktop? Find Out At LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit, IDG World Expo (Press Release) NetBeans IDE [...]

Mule Reaches 500,000 Downloads Milestone, MuleSource (Press Release) EnterpriseDB Announces New Pricing, Service and Support Offerings, EnterpriseDB (Press Release) Cisco’s iPhone violates GPL, expert says, Computerworld, Nancy Gohring (Article) Consumer Electronics: Closing In on Open Source, LinuxInsider, Jack Germain (Article) Keeping it FREE, here be dragons, Mark Shuttleworth (Blog) Just what is open source, AC/OS, [...]

Harold Goldberg joins Zend as CEO, Zend Technologies (Press Release) Liferay Names New CEO, Liferay (Press Release) Zenoss Names Open Source Luminary as Chairman of the Board, Zenoss (Press Release) Catalyst Systems Appoints Software Industry Visionary Stephen J. King as CEO, Catalyst Systems (Press Release) Sun Enhances Solaris 10 for x86 Server Market, Sun Microsystems [...]

Aras Delivers Microsoft-Based Open Source Enterprise Solutions, Aras (Press Release) VirtualBox goes open source!, InnoTek (Press Release) Intalio Signs New System Integration Partners, Intalio (Press Release) Taking the plunge into open source, News.com, Martin LaMonica (Article) Innotek makes virtualization software available as open source, Linux.com, Mayank Sharma (Article) Top 3 Linux Distros – No Easy [...]

EC throws money at OSS quality control, The Register, Lucy Sherriff (Article) Oracle Linux Redux, TheOpenForce.com, Zack Urlocker (Blog) The MVPs of Open Source, ZDNet Open Source Blog, Dana Blankenhorn (Blog) Where does open source code come from?, Computer Busines Review Online Open Source Blog, Matthew Aslett (Blog) Ingres CTO Dargo heads off to consulting [...]

MuleSource Adds New VP of Engineering to Executive Team, MuleSource (Press Release) Eclipse Joins Java Community Process, eWeek, Steve J. Vaghan-Nichols (Article) Qlusters CTO on the Datacenter Revolution, LinuxInsider, Jack Germain (Article) Should Apple Open Up the iPhone?, Red Herring, Falguni Bhuta (Article) Red Hat’s JBoss revenue edges toward goal, News.com Open Source and Standards [...]

Optaros Releases Open Source Catalogue, Optaros (Press Release) Scalix Announces Commercial Availability of Next-Generation, Enterprise-Class Collaboration Platform on Linux and Open Source, Scalix (Press Release) Jaspersoft Launches Jasper4Salesforce Advanced Reporting Solution on Salesforce.com’s AppExchange, JasperSoft (Press Release) Palamida Partners with Cyber Korp to Protect Software Intellectual Property Rights, Palamida (Press Release) Storix, Inc. Launches Backup [...]

EnterpriseDB Closes Extraordinary Year, EnterpriseDB (Press Release) Compiere Launches Expanded Partner Program to Extend Global Reach, Compiere (Press Release) Key Players In The Linux and Open Source Industry Sign On As Sponsors For LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit, LinuxWorld (Press Release) Decision Intelligence Joins Pentaho Partner Program, Pentaho (Press Release) Open Country Announces Partnership with Turbolinux, OpenCountry [...]