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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.....

Sun Microsystems is out with an answer to Adobe's AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight Rich Internet Application tools: JavaFX. At the JavaOne show in San Francisco today, Sun's head of software, Rich Green, discussed what to expect from the new offering. Green claims JavaFX will arrive on 91 percent of desktops, 85 percent of cell phones, and 100 percent of Blu-ray players--no small claims. While I'm not positive it will have that bright a future on so many platforms, Green showed JavaFX running on Google's Android mobile platform, which is Linux-based. Here, there could be promise.

At the JavaOne conference, Sun officials detailed how they've dealt with missteps in delivering open source products such as OpenSolaris.....

Microsoft hires SCO veteran to head up its competitive strategy initiatives.....

Britney Spears beats Paris Hilton in open source code references.....

Enomaly's open source cloud computing platform is getting more attention.....

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?

SCO chief testifies: Linux is a copy of Unix.....Who is the open source big dog--Red Hat or Sun?.....A new report says more orginizations are jumping on open source, but price is not the only driver.....Are IP liabilities a hidden trap when deploying open source software?.....Should you consider Zimbra for your open source mail server?.....

Former JBoss executive serves up advice to Red Hat: It's best not to rest on your laurels.....Oracle says it is playing by open source community rules.....Sugar CRM to support iPhone, Blackberry.....Sun Pushes open source storage.....Open source, multi-touch displays?.....Open source big names help attract new users.....

On the heels of our prediction, open source Java is quickly heading into Linux distros. Sun Microsystems, Canonical and Red Hat have announced the inclusion of OpenJDK-based implementations in Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support Server and Desktop editions.....Microsoft is using open source to extend systems management to Linux.....Sun Microsystems' chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, discusses his company's move to 100 percent open source software development.....Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth weighs in on MicroHoo.....

Sun Microsystems' CEO Jonathan Schwartz took the stage at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco on Friday, and OStatic staff was on hand. Sun, of course, has aggressively embraced open source software in its post-Scott McNealy period, as evidenced by its $1 billion acquisition of MySQL.

Schwartz discussed ongoing open source efforts at Sun, current work being done with Linus Torvalds, MySQL, and even the future of blogging at the conference.

Gartner is out with a new report that predicts that soon all businesses will use open source software--although there are some open source warnings too.....

Wired has an interesting item on supercharging Canon digital cameras using open source software.....

When asked about the future direction of Sun Microsystems, one of the company's new managing directors highlighted open source as a key focus.....

Dojo has stabilized and released a new version of its open source Ajax toolkit, backed by IBM, Sun and AOL....