Penguin Computing obtains additional funding. IBM and Covalent release JBoss-to-Apache Geronimo migration tool. Red Hat reports Q4 2007 earnings. (and more)

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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) released the third draft of the GPLv3 for public review and discussion today (press release). The “last-call” version expected in June before finalizing and publishing the GPLv3. If you have the time and interest to plow through licensing text, feel free to read the new draft yourself. The FSF has […]

Free Software Foundation releases new draft of the GPLv3. Oracle talks about its Unbreakable Linux customers. OpenVZ releases a new version of its open source virtualization software. (and more)

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Linux Foundation elects a Board of Directors. Oracle licenses Linux patents from the Open Invention Network. Coverity uncovers thousands of bugs in popular open source projects. (and more)

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OSBC producer InfoWorld to end print publication. Compiere surpasses 1.2 million downloads. Coupa launches open source eProcurement. (and more)

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In January Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users gave a keynote speech that was the talk of Linux Conf Au. Unfortunately, she won’t be providing the same inspiration to attendees at Etech: here’s why.
“My first reaction–and probably yours–is to think, “Of course he doesn’t actually mean it.” But the “funny” thing about crossing the line […]

IDC reports that shipments of laptops are ready to overtake shipments of desktops, a long-running trend in the PC industry. We’ve also been hearing more and more about ‘green computing’ and how energy efficiency and environmental impact are becoming priorities for consumers concerned about their world and enterprises concerned about their reputation.

This got me thinking […]

Red Hat enforces open source project trademark…HP may resell Oracle Linux…Bruce Perens speaks out regarding the GPLv3…and more…

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Having worked with Microsoft’s excellent development tools while simultaneously being bombarded with harsh invective by open source advocates, who can’t view the giant as anybody other than a convicted monopolist, my position on open source is simultaneously cynical and optimistic. I don’t see any obvious moral high ground to open source, yet I strongly believe […]

New research data shows increased MySQL usage by developers…GoDaddy donates cash to two open source projects…open source mobile company Funambol releases survey data on mobile email…and more…

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MuleSource expands team…Digium delivers Asterisk appliance…R1Soft introduces data protection for MySQL…and more…

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OpenAjax Alliance welcomes Microsoft and others…Laszlo announces Ajax runtime…Larry says Yahoo using Oracle for Linux support…and more…

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Canonical CEO and Ubuntu Founder Mark Shuttleworth told recently about his support and board seat for the Linux Foundation. This is a great addition and endorsement of the Linux consortium, formed earlier this year by the fusion of the OSDL and Free Standards Group. It brings Shuttleworth’s proven open source community and business leadership to […]

Adaptive Planning, an open source business performance management (BPM) company, announced earlier this month that it had secured $7.5m in its Series C funding round (press release). This round was led by Cardinal Venture Capital, with involvement by previous investors ONSET Ventures and Monitor Ventures. This brings the total amount of funding raised by Adaptive […]

Novell unveils new Linux offerings at BrainShare…Avidence obtains $5m in funding…Debian founder Murdock joins Sun…and more…

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Collax releases an SDK for its Linux platform…Adaptive Planning announces progress in 2006…Red Hat doubles JBoss’ R&D budget…and more…

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SWSoft to include SUSE Linux with Virtuozzo…Organizations from Europe, Brazil, and China form open source initiative…Xandros and SEP partner on backup and recovery…and more…

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Red Hat announces the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5…Centric CRM updates its open source CRM…Unicon contributes additional code to the uPortal project…and more…

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Compiere hires a new CEO…Red Hat preps for a press conference on Wednesday…GroundWork and Actuate deliver open source IT management reporting framework…and more…

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Adaptive Planning raises $7.5m…the new ObjectWeb (OW2) releases an updated version of its JOnAS application server…Open-Xchange unveils its new AJAX-based web interface for email under a GPL license…and more…

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