Sun organised their CommunityOne event today, and took the opportunity to also release a new version of OpenSolaris, after three years of development. Although things are not very clear (there's an announcement of the new release on sun.com, a new website on opensolaris.com, but no mention of this release on opensolaris.org!), this should be the result of Project Indiana lead by Ian Murdoch, founder of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. Will this make forget all passed difficulties?

Netbeans also saw a new release with version 6.1, providing faster startup times, support for the Spring web framework, tighter Mysql integration and further ruby/JRuby enhancements.

Virtualbox, also acquired by Sun recently, had a release last week.

It seems (there's been no official announcement) that Sun closed a $10 million Mysql deal. Who said there's no business opportunity with Free and Open Source Software?

After Sun's acquisition of Mysql, some questions arose about the future. Some answer are now available: version 5.1 has been released announced. What's more, after IBM exit from the storage engine, several news in that field have come out: Oracle released a new version of Innodb, and Kickfire unveiled their datawarehouse solution based on Mysql.

UPDATE: this news wrongly stated that Mysql 5.1 had been released. Only its upcoming release was announced.

Ubuntu, the growing Debian-based Linux distribution, is included by Sun Microsystems in its push for the SMB market (besides Windows and Solaris).

Sun hired Ted Leung and Frank Wierzbicki, two key Python developers, which should further help dynamic languages on the Java platform, and the Jython project. After the success with the JRuby project, and with Sun's CEO talking of future open source related acquisitions, some see PHP as a next candidate.

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?

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.

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.

Sun announced an agreement to acquire Mysql AB, the company behind the popular open source database, in a transaction worth $1 billion, $800 million of it being cash, the rest being in options.

Until now Sun supported only Postgresql, but it will propose global enterprise support for the Mysql solutions rapidly.

Sun's PDF rendered, which has its origin back in 2003, has now been released under the LGPL license This is not a PDF generator. It is an all Java tool that renders PDF documents to the screen using Java2D.
Potential uses listed on the project page are:

JPedal, an other Java PDF renderer is also available, but it released under the GPL.