Standish Group says open source costs vendors $60 billion. OpenLogic launches Open Source Census. Novell annnounces SUSE Appliance program. (and more)

“Free Open Source Software Is Costing Vendors $60 Billion,” New Standish Group International Study Finds, The Standish Group International (Press Release)

Global Open Source Census Launches to Count Enterprise Use of Open Source Software, OpenLogic (Press Release)

Novell Announces SUSE Appliance Program, Novell (Press Release)

Sun Microsystems Introduces MySQL Workbench, Sun Microsystems (Press Release)

Truviso Contributes PostgreSQL Enhancements to Open Source Community, Truviso (Press Release)

MindTouch Reports Outstanding Growth, Increased Momentum in the Social Enterprise Marketplace, MindTouch (Press Release)

Compiere Releases Open Source ERP Solution Upgrade, Compiere (Press Release)

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Keynote Addresses Announced, IDG World Expo (Press Release)

IBM WebSphere sMash Brings SugarCRM to WebSphere Users, SugarCRM (Press Release)

SugarCRM Manages SaaS Offering with Zenoss, Zenoss (Press Release)

ERP5 Express Revolutionizes On Demand Software with Free and Unlimited ERP, Nexedi (Press Release)

Sourcefire Announces New EMEA Channel Program, Sourcefire (Press Release)

Openbravo launches new Global Partner Program, Openbravo (Press Release)

WSO2 Expands Management Team, WSO2 (Press Release)

CNR.com Releases Beta CNR Client For Ubuntu 8.04, Linspire (Press Release)

ICEfaces 1.7 is Now Available!, ICEsoft Technologies (Press Release)

MySQL users frustrated as Sun limits new features for paying customers, Computerworld UK, Eric Lai (Article)

Ray Ozzie talks open source, mesh, IDG News Service, Nancy Gohring (Article)

Open mobile OS efforts abound, Network World, Joanie Wexler (Article)

New Debian leader aims for better communication, iTWire, Sam Varghese (Article)

Red Hat scraps plans for Linux PCs, iTnews, Mitchell Bingemann (Article)

We Don’t Use Software That Costs Money Here, Coding Horror, Jeff Atwood (Blog)

The Power of Community, Hyperic Blog, Stacey Schneider (Blog)

Open source pioneer Levanta goes out of business?, Enterprise Linux Log, Mark Gallagher (Blog)

What’s Going On With Red Hat Desktop Systems? An Update Red Hat News (Blog)

Dear Marten, Poo-tee-weet, Lukas Kahwe Smith (Blog)

Jealousy? Novell, Red Hat, and the Linux Desktop, Practical Technology, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Blog)

The Open Source Census is LIVE!, OpenLogic Blog, Kim Weins (Blog)

Open-source code base doubles every year, CNET - The Open Road, Matt Asay (Blog)