Digium acquires Switchvox. EnterpriseDB open sources MySQL-to-PostgreSQL migration toolkit. OpenVZ releases virtualization Live CD. (and more)

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MontaVista releases updated Mobilinux. IBM Lotus Symphony exceeds 100k downloads during first week. MindTouch exceeds 100k wiki installations. (and more)

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Red Hat announces earnings. Survey shows lukewarm interest in GPLv3 by developers. AlterPoint launches network alliance for ZipTie. (and more)

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Intalio obtains new round of funding. Monsoon Multimedia sued for GPL violation. Qumranet unveils new desktop virtualization technology. (and more)

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I recently read with great interest Walt Mossberg’s review of the latest Ubuntu Linux, described as “relatively slick,” but still not ready for non-technical users. I have a couple of differing perspectives. The first is that Ubuntu is ultra slick. It’s free. It’s open source. It’s growing. It’s Linux and it works (usually). My […]

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I am on vacation until Monday and will not be posting 451 CAOS Links until then. Expect a big update on Monday. Thanks!

Mozilla grants Thunderbird a new life. IBM releases office suite to compete with Microsoft. Wind River unveils updates to mobile Linux. (and more)

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Yesterday, there were three significant open source related M&A announcements - a merger and two acquisitions. I listed these in the 451 CAOS Links post already, but they are deserving of a unique post. A quick summary…
Yahoo! Announces Agreement to Acquire Zimbra, Yahoo (Press Release)

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced that […]

Yahoo acquires Zimbra. Univa and United Devices merge. ActiveGrid acauires TurboAjax Group. (and more)

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I’m pleased to announce that Matthew Aslett will be joining The 451 Group on October 1st to further advance our open source research efforts. I will be in our London office during early October to work closely with Matt.
Many of you are already familiar with Matt’s work at Computer Business Review (CBR), and his open […]

Zenoss releases management appliances. Intalio announces new customer-funded development effort. Red Hat updates RichFaces. (and more)

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If you haven’t already seen my 451 CAOS Links post for September 12th, 2007, I urge you to take a look.
From funding to open sourcing to expanded partnerships to acquisitions to new product releases - September 12th, 2007, has it all! The diversity of open source related activity is summarized nicely in one day of […]

Microsoft and Sun expand partnership. QNX open sources realtime operating system. Sun acquires Lustre file system. (and more)

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Last fall was marked by some fairly stunning announcements for open source. First software behemoth Oracle said it was going to offer its own support and version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Then, of course, was the pact announced between Microsoft and Novell. We also heard news that Sun would not only be open […]

VMWare open sources Tools product. Sun adds virtualization features and PostgreSQL to Solaris 10. MySQL releases MySQL Enterprise update. (and more)

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IBM joins OpenOffice community. OSI approves GPLv3. Firefox passes 400 million downloads. (and more)

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AMD announces ATI support for Linux. Ingres gains certification from BEA. xTuple updates OpenMFG and PostBooks. (and more)

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NetApp sues Sun over ZFS. Microsoft to work with Novell on Silverlight for Linux. XenSource releases embedded hypervisor. (and more)

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NetApp is suing Sun Microsystems over the ZFS file system technology (press release). It’s a software patent case, headed for East Texas. The problem? Sun released ZFS as open source, complicating the situation.
451 Storage Analyst Henry Baltazar and I spoke with Dave Hitz, founder and EVP of Network Appliance, briefly by phone today about the […]

ISO Press Release: Vote closes on draft ISO/IEC DIS 29500 standard

A ballot on whether to publish the draft standard ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML file formats, as an International Standard by ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) has not achieved the required number of votes for approval…Approval […]