Cloudera announced their distribution of Hadoop, software to distribute the handling of vast amount of data to a cloud of servers. And yes, you can get support.

Open-Xchange received $9 million funding. "Open-Xchange combines e-mail, appointment, contact and task management with document management", which makes it a competitor of Ms Exchange and Sharepoint.

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.

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.

Alfresco published a press-release announcing their OEM agreement with Adobe. Adobe will embed Alfresco's ECM software in its own LifeCycle Enterprise Suite.

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.

Microsoft has become a sponsor of the Open Source Census Project. Announced in december, and officially launched earlier this year, the project seems to be gathering steam at the sponsoring level. And as expected, this announcement as been followed by some reactions and coverage.

About the data collection: you can already access to the census reports, which currently are based on 1,316 machines scanned. Which is quite limited to be statistically representative.

As read on OStatic.