Cisco announced at its partner summit that it is opening up its Integrated Services Routers and Wide Area Application Services platforms to third party applications. This platform called Application eXtension Platform is built on Linux. Hardware modules and daughter boards are part of the offering.

OpenQRM, the provisioning and management solution for physical and virtual systems, initially developed by Qlusters, is now an independent project. Release 3.5 will be the last done by Qlusters, and Matt Rechenburg, the manager of the project, will continue to lead its development.

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Texas Instruments joined the LiMo foundation, an industry consortium dedicated to creating a "truly open, hardware-independent, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices". Texas Instruments is joining other industry heavy-weights on the LiMO Foundations' members list, such as founding members Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Panasonic, Samsung, Vodafone, but also Access, McAfee, LG, AMD, ARM, Ericsson, Amsung SDS and others.

Amanda, the venerable open source backup tool touted has protecting data from half a million servers, has reached version 2.6. Its cross-platform availability enables admins to use one tool to backup a heterogeneous infrastructure.
This version brings improvements in the ease of installation, the security features, the performance level, the device management and the robustness of the solution. A very insteresting element though is the device API introduced in this release. It lets developers integrate with new kinds of storage, and has already been used to use Amazon's S3 storage service.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

In a mail sent to the discussion forum on Sourceforge, Dhiren Patel announced IBM's decision to stop further development of SolidDB for Mysql, a product acquire with Solid, the companny developing it. Being released under the GPL, the community of users and developers will be able to continue the development, but without the involvement of IBM. Would this have something to do with Sun's acquisition of Mysql?