Open source in central and local government. Open source and cloud computing. FSF and Cisco settlement. And more.

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# Red Hat provided insight to why government agencies are turning to open source software.

# Glyn Moody: Newham and the Prisoner’s Dilemma – how UK local government can save money with free software.

# How the Dept of Defense is benefiting from open source and cloud computing. The Department of Defense’s Defense Information Systems Agency CIO spoke to InformationWeek.

# Red Hat asked Cloud Computing: Vaporware or the Next “Big Thing”?

# Red Hat’s Michael Evans on the confluence of open source and cloud computing.

# The Free Software Foundation and and its compliance engineer, Brett Smith provided more details on the FSF-Cisco settlement.

# Virtual Bridges, IBM and Canonical are delivering virtual Linux desktops.

# Matt Asay: Fitting the optimal level of openness to your business strategy.

# Intalio acquired BPM and CRM companies, launching Intalio|Cloud.

# Likewise Software announced that Likewise Enterprise will ship as part of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 from Novell.

# EnterpriseDB has hired former IONA open source exec Larry Alston.

# Dave Neary said no, there aren’t too many mobile Linux platforms (In response to Fabrizio).

# Microsoft Research launched Zentity, an open repository extension to Word.

# Jahia released Jahia Enterprise Edition v6 content management software.

# Openbravo Network is now Openbravo Professional Subscription with version 2.50.

# The transcript of Michael Tiemann’s podcast on open source software for TimesOnline.