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PHP 5.3.0 released. New features include namespaces, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions, and there are many bug fixes.

Red Hat seeks to certify the cloud--Q&A. Mike Evans, Red Hat's vice president of Corporate Development, on the company's cloud strategy.

KDE's Aaron Seigo gives sneak peek at version 4.3. Here's a screencast on the upcoming release.

Will Stallman C# warning fall flat? Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation says C# and Mono are a Microsoft conspiracy.

Building a Linux App Store: Can You Help? Isn't there room for one?



16 Videos from Red Hat: Some Marketing, But Good Perspectives Too

On the company's blog, Red Hat has posted a collection of 16 short videos, dubbed Red Hat Stories. The videos feature company leaders from around the world discussing who we are, what we do and how we do it, according to the post. One features Red Hat president and CEO Jim Whitehurst talking about open source and enterprise-class software, another provides a breakdown of Red Hat technology, and there is one dedicated to the subscription model that most observers see as key to the company's success. If you watch selectively, these could be useful.


Red Hat Invests and Supports its Way to Another Solid Quarter

Even as the economy has stayed in the doldrums, Red Hat continues to post strong quarterly financial results. Late Wednesday, the company reported first quarter revenues of $174.4 million, up 11 percent from $156.6 million a year earlier. Profits were also up, with quarterly earnings of $18.5 million, or 10 cents a share, up from a profit of $17.3 million, or 8 cents a share, for the same quarter last year.

Red Hat?s growth is driven in part by our ability to help enterprise customers save money in a challenging IT spending environment, said CEO Jim Whitehurst. Our open source solutions drive new capabilities, efficiencies and functionality into the mission critical infrastructure of our customers.? Red Hat's total cash, cash equivalents and investments as of May 31, 2009 sat at a whopping $884.5 million, which is more evidence of the investment savvy that Whitehurst and Red Hat's top brass have.



Dell's FOSS SMB Strategy: Support Needs to Be Included

Recently, we wrote about Dell's intent to bundle open source applications on computers for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The pre-configured SMB-in-a-box software bundles are targeted to make it easier for customers to become familiar with and use open source applications and platforms. As InfoWorld noted recently, though, Forrester and other market researchers have found that SMBs are apphrehensive about open source. Will Dell succeed with its strategy, and could it build support businesses around the offerings?


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Microsoft beating Mozilla...in open-source licensing. Adoption of its open source Microsoft Public License (MS-PL) is more prevalent than you think.

First look: Opera Unite alpha lets you share files -- but is it safe? The browser offers people their own web server, but what are the security risks?

EnterpriseDB brings Postgres closer to Oracle. It's more compatible and more scalable.

Red Hat's virtualization plan enters next phase. The company is aiming to challenge VMware and Citrix.



OStatic Buffer Overflow...

Microsoft beating Mozilla...in open-source licensing. Adoption of its open source Microsoft Public License (MS-PL) is more prevalent than you think.

First look: Opera Unite alpha lets you share files -- but is it safe? The browser offers people their own web server, but what are the security risks?

EnterpriseDB brings Postgres closer to Oracle. It's more compatible and more scalable.

Red Hat's virtualization plan enters next phase. The company is aiming to challenge VMware and Citrix.



Fedora 11's Ace-in-the-Hole: Microsoft Exchange Interoperability

As the upcoming release of Fedora 11 approaches--now slated for June 9th--it's starting to look like this new version could make a big difference for a lot of users and businesses. We reported on some of the more interesting features found in the Leonidas Preview, and now a number of other notable features are coming to light, including unprecedented interoperability with Microsoft Exchange. ?The interoperability features could have implications for many other Linux distributions.?