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.

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?

The first version of the PHP Development Tools for Eclipse have been announced, and provide avanced editor support, PHP debugging, a testing framework and extensive APIs so developers can further enhance PDT's capabilities.

It is developed by Zend with support from IBM.

IBM today released the beta version of Lotus Symphony, a productivity software containing a text processor, and spreadsheet and a presentation software. It working with OpenOffice's ODF format, but can read Microsoft Office files. This software is based on Eclipse' Rich Client Platform.

Will it be easier for this Eclipse based Office Suite to break into the entrerprise than it has been for OpenOffice/StarOffice? What's the added value of this proprietary software compared to OpenOffice, which is also backed by IBM? Will it bring some additional support to the Open Document Format? Time will tell, but the answer aren't very clear at the moment....

IBM has announced that it extends it support of the Solaris operating system on it x86 and blades systems. This further extends an existing agreement between the two companies, as Solaris was already available on select IBM systems.

As a reminder, Sun has published OpenSolaris under an Open Source license, but even Sun employees admit it's not very easy to get a good understanding of the OpenSolaris project. Work is in progress though to changes this under the name Project Indiana, with a very active mailing list open to all interested.

A judge has ruled that Unix copyrights belong to Novell. This could mean the end of the case between SCO and Novell, but SCO evidently doesn't see it that way

This also further weakens SCO's case against IBM. After four years, could this (finally) be the end of a lawsuit that hasn't refrained professionals to use and deploy Free and Open Source software?

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