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Eucalyptus cloud platform updated. It now features multi-cluster support and enhanced concurrency management for improved scaling on almost any infrastructure.

Linux to own 32 percent of the netbook market? ABI Research predicts that Linux will get there, particularly because of sales in less developed countries.

What would make you trust Microsoft? Without the competition of open source, would Microsoft?s trend toward bureaucracy have ever been slowed?

Amazon's move mocks EU's fear of Oracle. Oracle hasn't even started with MySQL yet, and it already faces significant competition from forks like Amazon's.

Why Funambol acquired Zapatec. Fabrizio Capobianco explains how the move extends Funambol's mobile tech strategy.

Users nervous about Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. Concerns also linger over the fate of other Sun technologies such as Solaris and Java.

Eucalyptus CTO discusses open source clouds. He discusses Eucalyptus' first commercial product--an open source private cloud platform that supports Amazon AWS APIs and leverages VMware.

Alpha 680 Android netbook review. One of the first Android netbooks has some rough edges, but shows promise.

Mozilla prepares for SeaMonkey 2.0 release. THe second beta of its Internet app suite arrives, final version coming next month.

Linux webserver botnet pushes malware. A security researcher has discovered a cluster of infected Linux servers that have been corralled into a special ops botnet.

Oracle gets go-ahead to buy Sun Microsystems. BBC News reports on the green light for the $7.4 billion deal.

How Moonlight 2.0 fits into Novell's Linux and open source plans. Now that Novell's Mono open source project has released the beta version of its Moonlight 2.0 code, what lies ahead?

Top 5 Linux video editing apps. Avidemux is a simple choice, and Cinelerra is very advanced.

PHP Toolkit for ADO.Net Data Services open sourced. Microsoft has introduced an open source project to bridge PHP and the company's .Net programming model.

LucidGaze for Lucene debuts. Lucid Imagination, which supports open source Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies, has delivered LucidGaze for Lucene, a free monitoring tool for installations using the Java Lucene search library.

Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris? What does a Linux company, which Oracle is, want to do with its newly purchased Sun operating system?

Google releases open source NX server. Amid the fanfare of the Chrome OS announcement, Google quietly released an open source NX server, dubbed Neatx, for remote desktop display.

HP releases $500 Linux netbook onto Aussie market. This week sees the Australian launch of the Mini 110, which HP is offering with both Ubuntu and Windows XP.

Free operating systems that aren't Linux. There are other free options such BSD, OpenSolaris, HaikuOS, ReactOS, and PureDarwin.

Chrome, Android have different jobs, Google says. Android has features unique to running mobile devices, and one doesn't replace the other, a Google mobile executive says.

Oracle remains top dog in databases, but faces many open source challenges.....

Will open source blow mobiles open? .....

Linux runs 85 percent of the world's fastest computers.....

Ubuntu 8.10 alpha 1 packs a new theme.....

The European Commission is considering doing research on whether it should migrate to open source software.....

Sun Microsystems officials are maintaining that MySQL will remain fully open source but does that mean just the kernel?.....

Sun is also in a new partnership with Liferay, to deliver next-generation web technologies.....

Oracle is eyeing open source developers with its Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, a new component of Oracle Fusion Middleware....

In other Oracle news, one of its executives says there should be only one Linux distribution: Red Hat.....

Linux.com has a video interview with IBM's Linux guru.....

In case you were wondering, Red Hat--fresh off a rosy earnings report that was interpreted by analysts as a welcoming present for new CEO Jim Whitehurst--won't deliver a desktop product for consumers anytime soon. In a news post at the company's site, team members write: We have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future.

While there has been much speculation that Red Hat might target the consumer desktop, I'm not surprised by this news. Why isn't the company delivering such a product? Because it doesn't need to.

Red Hat, a titan among Linux software companies, is out with strong quarterly numbers along with some commentary from new chief executive Jim Whitehurst. The New York Times referred to the positive financial performance as a welcome present for Whitehurst, but I really see it as proof of the efficacy of Red Hat's open source business model: Deliver strong products and get revenues from support.

Red Hat's quarterly sales rose 27 percent and earnings were above analysts' conencus estimates. The company is forecasting growth of 30 percent for the fiscal year that it just begun. How is the company putting all this together, and can it stay independent?

SearchEnterpriseLinux has a good interview with Sun Microsystems' Barton George about Sun's plans for open source and MySQL integration.....