Cisco has announced it will acquire Jabber Inc, the company, not to be confused with Jabber, the protocol, formalised by the IETF and now known under the name XMPP.

Zarafa today announced the release of their solution under the AGPLv3.

Their website has a community section, from where to download binary and source code distribution of their solution.

Microsoft has announced that it is sponsoring the Apache Foundation.
The fact that the Apache license allows closed proprietary derivatives, as opposed to the GPL, must have helped Microsoft take this decision.

EngineYard, the Ruby applications hosting company, (on top of the $3.5M earlier this year).

Engine Yard is also sponsoring the development of Merb, a ruby web development framework, and rubinius, a ruby implementation.

Of course, Engine Yard also hosts Ruby on Rails applications

Google recently released several open source projects:

• RatProxy: a passive web application security assessment tool
• Protocol Buffers: a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format and the format used for almost all of Google's internal RPC protocols and file formats.
• GoogleTest: a framework for writing C++ tests on a variety of platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Windows CE, and Symbian).

Interesting for developers to check out!

So it seems the rumors were true: Xandros is acquiring Linspire. It's not clear to anyone if this will have a significant impact though....

RedHat published a press release detailing their Q1 financial results. Revenue increased 32%, and operating cash flow Increased by 60% Year-over-Year.

Impressive numbers, further analysed by Matt Asay.

InfoQ is reporting the release of 2 open source projects by Orbitz, a big online travel company.

The first project is for the java platform: ERMA (Extremely Reusable Monitoring API), is "an instrumentation API that has been designed to be applicable for all monitoring needs" with the goal to "make instrumentation as simple as logging".

The second, built with Python, is Graphite, "a highly scalable real-time graphing system". this project seems similar to MRTG and RRDTool.

Nokia announced today its intention to buy Symbian shares it din't already own, and the start of a new Symbian Foundation with the help of other parties interested in Symbian (like AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Vodafone and others).

Nokia will contribute the Symbian and S60 software to the Symbian Foundation. Sony Ericsson and Motorola also announced their intention to contribute technology from UIQ.

The eventual goal is to propose an open source platform for mobile computing licensed under the EPL.

Although it's only an announcement at this stage, the least we can say is that it's an interesting one. Let's see what materialises, and how this Symbian Foundation and the Open Handset Alliance will do in the future.

HP announced the release of AdvFS under the GPL. The code will be contributed as a reference implementation for the Linux kernel, and will also provide documentation. AdvFS has its roots at Digital Equipment Corporation, as the file system of Tru64, the unix operating system running on the now defunct Alpha architecture. The technology arrived at HP through Compaq.

AdvFS joins the ranks of numerous Linux file systems, such as XFS coming from Silicon Graphics, JFS coming form IBM, Ext3, ResiserFS and others