Designed to store fixed content, the software is now available for download. It can be run on x86 hardware. The Soragetek 5800 system running the same software and sold by Sun is presented as providing greater reliability, availability,serviceability for those who need it.

Video interviews of Profoss speakers have been published on Virtualization.com. Here are links to the interviews of Tarry Singh , John Abbott , Werner Fischer , Frank Kohler and Matt Rechenburg

Those interviews have been recorded on the evening of the first day of the virtualisation event on 22 and 23 january 2008.

Available at http://opensource.adobe.com, the website is "designed to keep you up to date on Adobe open source activities". You'll also find their contribution such as BlazeDS, their server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology, the Flash Ajax video component, a section on Tamarin, the mozilla project based on Adobe code to implement the upcoming version of the ECMAScript 4th Edition language specification.

This is a small step, hopefully followed by numerous others.

Called Framewave, the project "offers developers unparalleled, code-level access to a vast array of signal and image functions and routines designed with "code faster, faster code" in mind". It is the result of 3 years work, and boasts 3000+ performance routine optimisation.

Intel already released the Threading Building Block Library under the GPL.

As seen on InternetNews.

Jet Multimedia has decided to publish Huria, their Content Management System for mobile websites, under the GPL. It is based on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP) stack.

All the website and documentation is currently only available in french.

The installation process is surprising: download one PHP script, put it on your webserver and access it. All this will then be done through your browser, even the download of the software.

As seen on Toolinux.

Google has contracted Codeweavers to make Adobe Photoshop CS and CS2 run better on GNU/Linux systems.

Google is already using Wine for Picasa on Linux, and contributed several patches to the project.

As seen on The 451 Group

Mozilla Messaging is the new Mozilla Foundation subsidiary, focusing a Thunderbird 3 development. It is headed by David Ascher. It has been started after complaints that Firefox was getting all attention while Thunderbird was left behind, and several options where pondered before deciding to start a dedicated company, 100% subsidiary of the non-profit organisation.

As seen on Toolinux

Described as the easiest version to use ever, the Drupal 6.0 introduces significant enhancements, notably multi-lingual content support out of the box. It also introduces ajaxy features such as drag and drop menu arrangements, and new core components as OpenID support, and actions and triggers. This release also opens the door to CSS-only themes.

The acquisition spree continues as Sun acquires Innotek, maker of Virtualbox, "a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware".
The question one might ask these days is: will there still be independent free and open source companies left in the future?

With this buy, Sun, already the top Debian GNU/Linux contributor ahead of IBM and RedHat, is further positioning itself as a reference for free and open source software in the enterprise.

The Nexenta Operating System "is a free and open source operating system combining the OpenSolaris kernel with GNU application userland. NexentaCore is a minimal (core) foundation that can be used to quickly build servers, desktops, and custom distributions tailored for specialized applications. It is already used as the foundation for NexentaStor storage appliance."

It tries to bring the Ubuntu and Debian experience to OpenSolaris. In fact, the Nexenta Operating Sytem even wants to become the official port of Debian/GNU to the OpenSolaris Core.

This 1.0 release will be used as foundation for further Nexenta OS development.