Wind River buys Comsys. SugarCRM releases new beta using GPLv3. SIS invalidates Swedish vote on OOXML. (and more)

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Novell reports earnings. Linux Foundation issues statement on OOXML. Free Software Foundation unites with environmental and social causes. (and more)

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Much of the hottest debate and discussion in the open source community lately has been about one the most proprietary of vendors, Microsoft. As Redmond alters its course and plots its co-existence and next wave of competition with open source, it is running into everything from pushback to open arms to, more recently, a challenge […]

Free Software Foundation issues Microsoft statement. SourceForge reports earnings. JasperSoft and Unisys partner on open source BI. (and more)

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Microsoft survey on document formats shows interest in standards. SugarCRM releases Sugar 5.0. OpenLogic provides resources for developing an open source policy. (and more)

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Sun to change stock ticker to ‘JAVA.’ Red Hat announces upcoming JBoss World. Microsoft retires ‘Get the Facts’ campaign. (and more)

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Ingres debuts Icebreaker BI appliance. Levanta releases Linux management appliance. Red Hat launches virtualization services. (and more)

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Active Endpoints gets a new CEO. Interface21 releases Spring Web Services. GroundWork shares Q3 successes. (and more)

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In the wake of the VMware IPO and Citrix-XenSource acquisition, it’s pretty clear that virtualization management will become the hot new market. We’re fairly chuffed about that since we’re hard at work on a major report on the sector.
We’d love to get your input. If you’re at an organization that has some virtualization management products, […]

Sourcefire buys ClamAV. Concurrent releases earnings. Cepstral open sources telephony tech. (and more)

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Sourcefire has bought the ClamAV project for an extraordinary, one-time charge in the third quarter of 2007 of between 9¢ and 12¢ per Sourcefire share. ClamAV is an open source project that has created an anti virus engine, packages that support its use on Linux, Unix, BSD and Win32, and a signature database that currently […]

IBM and Sun Microsystems announced today a deal whereby IBM will distribute Solaris on select x86 systems from IBM. IBM customers will now have the option, in some cases, to select Solaris as an operating system, alongside Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). From the press release (press […]

IBM to distribute Solaris x86 on select IBM hardware. Survey shows Apache trailing behind Microsoft IIS in Fortune 1000. Openbravo hires product lead from Oracle. (and more)

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The purchase of XenSource by Citrix reinforces the direction for the Xen hypervisor and virtualization technology toward Windows and Microsoft’s Veridian, but what does it mean for virtual machines and management using Linux? For one, it makes what is happening with KVM, OpenVZ, Virtual Box and others all the more interesting and important. With VMware […]

As you have no doubt heard by now, Citrix announced its acquisition of open source virtualization company XenSource today for $500m (press release).
We issued a TechDealmaker QuickTake early this morning concerning this news entitled, “Citrix pays $500m for XenSource, squares off against VMware” (login required) by fellow 451 analysts William Fellows, Rachel Chalmers, Brenon Daly, […]

Citrix acquires XenSource for $500m. Microsoft and Xandros expand collaboration. XFire creator joins MuleSource. (and more)

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Fedora receives $4.9m grant. MuleSource adopts OSI-approved CPAL license. FiveRuns and BitRock launch Ruby on Rails stack for the enterprise. (and more)

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Judges rules for Novell in SCO case. XenSource updates XenEnterprise. Red Hat releases Eclipse-based IDE for JBoss. (and more)

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Much of the talk leading up to this year’s LinuxWorld Conference & Expo centered on how the open source OS has become so mainstream, it seemed somewhat silly to have its own conference. However, the conference (bolstered by the concurrent Next Gen Data Center show) did highlight the continuing evolution of Linux and other open […]

JasperSoft obtains new round of funding. Sun releases new license for JCK. LinuxWorld attendance increases from prior year. (and more)

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