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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.

The Apache Software Foundation is celebrating 10 years since its incorporation, and so we're partying like it's 1999 here at ApacheCon. By which I mean ApacheCon has remained true to its roots with a community-driven feel that seemed more common in the Open Source events of 10 years ago.

The big news today is that the Subversion project is joining the Apache Software Foundation. To mark the announcement, representatives from the Apache Software Foundation, the Subversion Project and CollabNet held a joint press conference at the downtown Oakland Marriott in a cozy, if poorly ventilated, hotel conference room. Read on for more details, as well as news about Git repositories and comparing the ASF to the new Codeplex Foundation.

We've written a number of times about open source security and authentication applicaiton vendor Likewise Software, because they're a quality company with a great product line. Likewise Open supports over 125 platforms and links Linux, Unix, or Mac systems to Active Directory domains in one easy step. Likewise Enterprise allows IT departments to authenticate users, create reports for regulatory audits, and control access to applications and data.

If your IT department has been considering giving Likewise a whirl, the free download of Likewise Open is available for the taking. If you're already a Likewise Open customer, then you'll want to listen up. Tomorrow, the company is formally announcing new ways to upgrade to Likewise Enterprise but we've got the skinny right now.

Open source mobile push email and sync provider, Funambol announced today it has acquired AJAX Web 2.0 framework provider Zapatec. Currently, mobile Web app developers are forced to build native apps for several different platforms, a process that's time-consuming and costly. Funambol's acquisition of Zapatec addresses the issue by offering a way for developers to build open mobile browser apps that take advantage of a phone's native capabilities, yet supports multiple devices.

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco tells OStatic he sees good things ahead as a result of this new partnership. Developers today need to build separate native apps for too many mobile platforms, including the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, BREW, mobile Linux, Java ME and other proprietary mobile OSs and environments. It is too much work to support all of these platforms, which forces developers to make difficult choices about which phones to support

If you're like most computer users, your hard drive is probably stuffed to the gills with movies, pictures, music, and media files you want to hang on to. If you're trying to figure out a good way to manage them all, have a look at Moovida, an open source media player that's so snappy you might kick your current player to the curb.

Moovida is loaded with more features than one person could probably ever use. Media is searchable by artist, song, TV show, movie title, or file name. Thumbnail and slideshow images of cover art or image files display beautifully and put CoverFlow to shame.

Skype for Linux going (almost) open source. The UI will be open, but not the core.

Open source identity: Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson. In this Q&A, he discusses the history of Rails and where it's headed.

5 open source billing systems to watch. AgileBill and others take care of payment processing, invoicing, and more.

Web Open Font Format gets backing from Mozilla. It's an effort to bring advanced typography to the web in a much better way.

Setting up a MySQL cluster for your Linux desktop. It's not so complicated.