Marketcetera recently released version 1 of their automated trading platform. From the homepage: Marketcetera's platform lets brokers and traders build effective automated trading systems, develop proprietary algorithms, create order management solutions and manage risk faster, easier and at much lower cost than with closed platforms.

Another illustration of the breadth of solution proposed under an open source license.

Just when the first Android powered phones become available in the US, google has published the source code of Android to source.android.com/. The code is managed with git, the source code control software originally designed by Linus Torvalds to managed the Linux source code, and is made available under the Apache license

OpenOffice.org has been released in version 3.0, which brings a lot of new features, including MS Office 2007 import filters. Worth a try if you're using or evaluating OpenOffice.org!

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.

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!

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.

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

released for both the desktop and the server, bringing quite some changes with it, cinludin a new installer and major updates in the package management. Downloads are available.

Firefox 3 has been release and is available for download, bringing not only big performance enhancements, but also UI changes as better fullscreen and the Awesome bar, and internal changes as well(new bookmarks system, malware protection, and more).

Wine, the Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix, has finally reached version 1.0, after 15 years of development. It eases porting windows applications to unix platforms, or helps running windows applications unchanged on unix. A list of applications running on wine is available on Wine's AppDB.

Although a minor release, version 5.2 brings enhancements mainly in 6 areas:

• Virtualization
• Laptop and Desktop improvements
• Encryption and Security
• Cluster & Storage Enhancements
• Networking & IPv6 Enablement
• Servicability

RedHat knows that such releases bring value to their subscription model, and they apparently work hard to bring quality.