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

"Grails is a dynamic web-application framework built in Java and Groovy, leveraging best of breed APIs from the Java EE sphere including Spring, Hibernate and SiteMesh". This release features content negociation, REST and JNDI support. Worth checking if you're developing a website on the Java platform.

After switching to OpenOffice in 2005 and to Mozilla Firefox and Thuderbird in 2006, the french Gendarmerie is switching to Ubuntu. The goal is to have the 70000 PCs moved to Ubuntu within 5 years.

As seen on Linuxfr.

The release has been announced on the development mailing list and features

• Xen Security Modules (XSM)
• ACPI S3 suspend-to-RAM support for the host system
• Preliminary PCI pass-through support (using appropriate Intel or AMD
  I/O-virtualisation hardware)
• Preliminary support for a wider range of bootloaders in fully virtualised
• (HVM) guests, using full emulation of x86 'real mode'.

KDE, the desktop environment based on the Qt libraries and available in all popular Linux distributions, has reached version 4.0. This is a major step in the development of the project. It is the first version based on QT 4, introduces hardware integration libraries (Solid), multimedia libraries abstracting the backend software (Phonon), a new desktop shell (Plasma), new artwork (Oxygen), etc...

Redhat had a great quarter with total quarter revenue increase of 28% year over year. Worth noting is that Redhat's first latin-american deal with a value over 1 million dollars came from a company upgrading from CentOS to RHEL.

But the most significant news might be Matthew Szulic's resignation for personal reasons after more than 9 years at the company. The new CEO Jim Whitehurst comes from Delta Airlines, a totally different economic environment, making some fear for Redhat's future.

Sourcefire, which acquired ClamAV rights back in august, announced the availability of a commercially supported version, downloadable as a binary distribution. The subscription-based version will also include two new software modules developed by Sourcefire for monitoring certain types of data.
A Free/Open Source version is still developed as a community project with updated antivirus signatures.

An Open Source Census initiative has been announced, with the aim to quatify the spread of Free and Open Source software in the enterprise. It'll start in Q1 2008, but you can become a sponsor or help improve the OSS Discovery software, released under the GNU Affero GPL.

If this initiative gets enough support, it could bring very interesting data. A good reason to take a close look!

1&1 is working with Funambol to deploy a push email solution, integrating with OpenXchange, already used by 1&1.

Funambol's solution is dually licensed: client under the GPL and server under the custom HPL license for the Community Edition, and under a commercial license for the Carrier Edition. The HPL license is based on the GPL, with the precision that distribution of software as a service is the same as distribution on a physical media.

Client and server bundles, together with several SDKs, are available for download. Several community projects are also developed, with as examples connectors for Zimbra, Gmail, SugarCRM, etc...

As Funambol also provides professional support, could this be the right solution for a company looking to deploy a push email solution?

Thanks to: The Open Road