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Startups Funambol and Laszlo Systems have announced that Funambol's open source mobile messaging software will integrate with Laszlo's web-based communications suite, including e-mail, contacts, and calendar.....

Sun Microsystems is promising regular updates to its new OpenSolaris operating system, and costs for support are expected this week.....

Powerset, a contextual, semantic search engine that relies on open source Hadoop cluster technology for processing, has launched new search services.....

Digium's CEO discusses his company's open source balancing act in the VoIP arena.....

As Sun Microsystems' JavaOne conference kicks off this week, along with its CommunityOne open source conference, Sun and the OpenSolaris community have jointly announced the availability of the OpenSolaris operating system. It's a fully open source open, community-driven operating system, based on Sun's Solaris kernel. You can download it free now. There is more news out of Sun today, too, including a hookup between Amazon and the OpenSolaris community, focused on cloud computing applications. Can this OS compete with Linux rivals?

Despite the occasional brush with critics in the open source community, Sun continues to maintain that it will ship all of its software assets as open source (though in some cases the timeframes are not clear).

One of the prominent areas where the company is following through on this at the moment is with its storage offerings.