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

Novell Showcases Latest Solutions for the Open Enterprise at BrainShare 2007, Novell (Press Release)

Avidence Secures $5.0 Million in Series A Funding, Avidence (Press Release)

Sun Announces the Next Major Version of the Open Source Java Enterprise Edition 5 (GlassFish v2) Application Server and the New Sun Web Developer Pack, Sun Microsystems (Press Release)

Fonality Launches the trixbox Asterisk-Based Appliance, Fonality (Press Release)

Black Duck prepares Application Development Market for New Version of GPL License with Launch of protexIP 4.3, Black Duck Software (Press Release)

SugarCRM Introduces Advanced Project Management Integrated with CRM, SugarCRM (Press Release)

SplendidCRM Offers Comprehensive, Easy-To-Use Open-Source CRM Solution To Enterprise System Integrators, SplendidCRM Software (Press Release)

Qlusters Announces Expanded Virtualization and Xen Support, Qlusters (Press Release)

SiteScape Announces ICEcorps, the First Open Source Collaboration Suite to Unify Team Workspaces and Real-Time Conferencing, SiteScape (Press Release)

Koders Kicks Off Public Beta Program for Koders Professional Edition, Koders (Press Release)

Jive Software’s Openfire 3.2 Adds Voice Calling to Real-Time Collaboration Products, Jive Software (Press Release)

Commetrex Announces BladeWare(VXML) Open-Source VoiceXML Product Suite, Commetrex (Press Release)

Big vendors give open source added clout, Federal Computer Week, Larry Stevens (Article)

Free Software Versus Open Source Software, informitit, David Chisnall (Article)

The Controversy Over GPL 3 , InformationWeek, Charlie Babcock (Article)

Red Hat, Oracle: Cross Currents in the Linux Market, SeekingAlpha, Larry Dignan (Blog)

Joining Sun, Ian Murdock’s Weblog, Ian Murdock (Blog)

Apt-get Install Ian Murdock: The Q&A, RedMonk - tecosystems, Stephen O’Grady (Blog)

In Search Of GPL Version 3: The Long Road To Nowhere, InformationWeek Blog, Charlie Babcock (Blog)

Oracle to break its Unbreakable silence, Computer Business Review Online Open Source Weblog, Matthew Aslett (Blog)

FoxPro Going to CodePlex, Matusow’s Blog, Jason Matusow (Blog)

Biting The Hands That Feed, MyEclipse Blog, Maher Masri (Blog)

Novell’s Link to the Microsoft TCO Linux Message, Once More unto the Breach, Stephen Walli (Blog)

FSF Corrects Novell’s Steinman and a Request to End the Mystery, Groklaw, Pamela Jones (Blog)

The BSD vs. GPL debate, InfoWorld Open Sources, Matt Asay (Blog)