CollabNet acquires SourceForge Enterprise Edition from VA Software. Red Hat acquires MetaMatrix for JBoss offering. MontaVista acquires MontaVista Ltd and Liberte. (and more)

Note: Due to a cross-country conference trip and limited Internet access, there was no 451 CAOS Links on Monday 04/23/07.

CollabNet and VA Software Sign Asset Purchase Agreement for Acquisition of SourceForge Enterprise Edition Business by CollabNet, CollabNet (Press Release)

Red Hat Defines Next Significant Open Source Migration Opportunity, Red Hat (Press Release)

MontaVista Acquires Two Companies to Increase Professional Services Capacity and to Broaden European Market Coverage, MontaVista Software (Press Release)

IONA Announces Q1 2007 Results, IONA (Press Release)

IBM Opens System P Servers to Thousands of x86 Linux Applications, IBM (Press Release)

Palamida Launches Open Source Vulnerability Reporting Solution, Palamida (Press Release)

Talend introduces the industry’s first java open source data integration solution, Talend (Press Release)

EnterpriseDB Advanced Server 8.2 Now Available, EnterpriseDB (Press Release)

MySQL AB Launches New Business Partner Program, MySQL AB (Press Release)

Open Invention Network Goes To India, Open Invention Network (Press Release)

Queplix Brings Open Source Customer Care Software to Both Enterprises and Small Businesses with QueWeb 3.0, Queplix (Press Release)

Vitria to Provide Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for Newly Launched Open SOA Integration Suite, Vitria / Red Hat (Press Release)

Alfresco and WoodWing Announce Open Source ECM/Workflow Partnership, Alfresco Software / WoodWing USA (Press Release)

Black Duck Teams with Carahsoft to Help Government and Contractors Comply with Software Licensing Requirements, Black Duck Software (Press Release)

XenSource and iSCSI Storage Partners Team to Reduce the Complexity and Cost of Disaster Recovery for Virtualization, XenSource (Press Release)

Zmanda Launches First Enterprise Data Backup Solution for MySQL Cluster, Zmanda (Press Release)

CodeGear Partners with MySQL AB to Provide Greater Productivity and Flexibility in Next-Generation Web Applications Development, CodeGear (Press Release)

Xandros Linux Server First to Receive LSB Certification by Using New Automated Testkit, Xandros (Press Release)

Red Hat Readying Real-Time Product Release, eWeek, Peter Galli (Article)

Ten things you didn’t know about open source, tectonic, James Archibald (Article)

IDC: Open source, SaaS top disruptors in Asia, ZDNet Asia, Aaron Tan (Article)

Ubuntu and Sun vs. Red Hat and JBoss?, Linux-Watch, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Article)

And Now … Life After GPLv3, Freedom Now, Eben Moglen (Blog)

Open source software as market competition, Bob Sutor’s Open Blog, Bob Sutor (Blog)

New Development, Distribution and Support Model for JBoss, Enter The JBoss Matrix, Sacha Labourey (Blog)

Google releases patches that enhance the manageability and reliability of MySQL, Google Code Blog, Mark Callaghan (Blog)

Where all the open source parasites?, InfoWorld Open Sources, Matt Asay (Blog)

How long will Marc Fleury stay retired?, Computer Business Review Online Open Source Weblog, Matthew Aslett (Blog)

The Beautiful Game, Micrososft - Port 25, Bryan Kirschner (Blog)