The Linux Foundation announced that Adobe joined it to "collaborate on the advancement of Linux as a leading platform for rich Internet applications (RIA) and Web 2.0 technologies". Let's not forget however that Adobe Flash and Air are both proprietary products, with Air only available as an Alpha version for Linux.

Adobe Share is powered by Alfresco. This is a beta service for now letting you share and convert documents. Those deployments based on Free and Open Source Software are rarely advertised as such, and certainly worth mentioning.

OpenOffice 2.4 is now available with new features in all components.
The website design has also been overhauled.

Jaspersoft announced that their Business Intelligence Suite achieved "Works with Windows Server 2008" certification.

Jaspersoft has worked together with Microsoft and just released an Excel connector, though not under an open source license. Their products are developed on the Java platform.

EnterpriseDB, a company developing a database system compatible with Orable based on Postgresql announced a round of funding bringing an additional $10 million, for a total of $37 millions raised in 4 years. Investors include IBM and earlier investors Charles River Ventures, Fidelity Ventures, and Valhalla Partners.

Furthermore, Enterprisedb announces the publication of their GridSQL, their business intelligence and data warehousing solution, under the GPL license. It was formerly a proprietary product.

Infoworld interviews 11 personalities linked to the Open Source movement about the state of the Open Source. The focus is on Open Source and business matters, as shows the interviewees list (no one from the Free Software Foundation for example). Subjects of discussion include Issues and opportunities ,Evolving trends, The cost of commercialization, Avenues for acceptance, Missteps and lessons learned, Visions of utopia and Competition and dissent.

3 years after acquiring the technology from AOL, RedHat released the source code under open source licenses for its Certificate System under Project DogTag. Expected features of such a system are present: certificate management, revocation lists, certificate profiles, Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol and more.

Ubuntu, the growing Debian-based Linux distribution, is included by Sun Microsystems in its push for the SMB market (besides Windows and Solaris).

BusyBox developers agreed to end the GPL lawsuit against Verizon, which was filed by the Software Freedom Law Center. Verizon distributes BusyBox in devices that are provided to Verizon by Actiontec Electronics, Inc.. Under the agreement, "
Actiontec has agreed to appoint an Open Source Compliance Officer within its organization to monitor and ensure GPL compliance, to publish the source code for the version of BusyBox it previously distributed on its Web site, and to undertake substantial efforts to notify previous recipients of BusyBox from Actiontec and its customers, including Verizon, of their rights to the software under the GPL".

As read on The 451 Group

Equinox is a new implementation of OSGI (a component integration platform), which is quite a departure from the development tools focus of the Eclipse Foundation. Being developed under the Eclipse umbrella, the project has several resources available to ease your invlovement.