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The open source Asterisk project started off as an effort to be an on-premise IP-PBX. Over the years, demand for increasingly scalable and modular approaches for voice communications has grown, which is why a new Asterisk project is being announced this week. The Asterisk Scalable Communications Framework (SCF) is a new project sponsored by Digium that aims to build an open source VoIP system for large-scale deployments.

It seems to me that hardly a week goes by when I don't see a release about yet another vendor joining the Linux Foundation. This week, the vendor is OpenLogic, an open source support and services vendor that I've covered for many years. It struck me as odd that OpenLogic is just joining the Linux Foundation now.

"The Bare Metal Engine is a container that is assigned to a specific core and it's configured such that the engine will get 99.9999 percent of the core's processing power," Dan Cauchy, vice president of marketing and business development at MontaVista told InternetNews.com. "It's not bothered by any of the administrative overhead of a regular Linux kernel."

Digging into the underlying operating system internals, Western Digital doesn't detail much in the user manual, but does give us a hint with a sentence that notes that the device includes open source software. The company also provides a link to its GPL code download location. Code licensed under the GPL is open source code that requires vendors to make it available to all users. A quick look at the WD's GPL code reveals that the WD TV Live Plus runs a Linux 2.6.22.19 kernel as the underlying embedded operating system.

The study also doesn't shed much light on potential hybrid deployments where Linux is deployed alongside Windows and Unix. "We didn't ask that question exactly," McPherson said. "I bet you are correct that many would be hybrid, and that would be good to ask next time."

From my perspective, IBM's move to the OpenJDK is long overdue. When I asked IBM yesterday why it took them so long, I was told it was just a question of having a dialogue with Oracle, whereas there wasn't one with Sun. To me, that's the primary reason why Oracle will continue to be successful with Java. Oracle is a sales driven company. Make no mistake about it, Oracle 'sold' IBM on the idea of joining the OpenJDK. Oracle closed the deal that Sun could not. http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/10/red-hat-hails-i...

Alcatel-Lucent is taking aim at the enterprise with a new 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching platform that is the cornerstone of its new Application Fluent Networks strategy. The OmniSwitch 10K platform can scale up to 256 10GbE ports, delivering up to 5.12 TBS of total switching capacity. The new switching platform includes technologies from Alcatel-Lucent's experience with service providers. The OmniSwitch 10K is also the first enterprise platform from Alcatel-Lucent to leverage its new Linux-based AOS 7 network operating system.

Red Hat has settled an alleged patent infringement case with IP firm Acacia Research Corporation around U.S. Patent #6,163,776. That particular case was pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Civil Action No: 6:09-cv-00097-LED. As to how Red Hat has settled the alleged IP infringement, that's where the transparency (or lack thereof) is my concern.

In July, Jared Smith took up the position of Fedora Project Leader, replacing the outgoing Paul Frields. Among Smith's first jobs is to guide the development and release of the upcoming Fedora 14 Linux distribution, set for general availability in November. Building the Fedora Linux distribution is one of Smith's key responsibilities as Fedora Project Leader, but it involves more than just pure code. "A lot of the time we think of Fedora as just the bits and the bytes that we burn on a CD every six months and ship out, but Fedora is more than that, it has to be a community," Smith said. "As such we have to concentrate on building that community and taking care of the community as much as we take care of the bits and bytes."

Over the years, I've heard a lot of different people try and explain the economic proposition that open source and Linux offers. One of the best such explanations I've ever heard came on CNBC's Mad Money show this week during which host Jim Cramer was interviewing Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst. With Red Hat, Cramer noted that it is a disruptive force and that's what makes it attractive. His view is that in tech, disruptive forces are the most valuable types of companies.

"Because of Linux we're able to develop a programming interface to the product GUI's that allows for a lot less time to be spent by our partners, for training on how to configure a device," Mark Monday, vice-president and general manager of Cisco's small business technology group told InternetNews.com. "What we find in this market is that partners value quickness and simplicity. It is an enabler for us to simplify the product for our customer and our partners."

OpenLogic analyzed over 450 Apple Appstore and Google Android apps and found that 88 percent of Android and 41 percent of Apple iOS apps had an open source component. The data helps to underscore OpenLogic's new commercial service called OLEX App Store edition which is intended to help enable App Store developers and manager to identify and maintain compliance with open source licensing requirements.

Linux vendor Red Hat is out this week with the second major milestone for the next generation of its enterprise Linux release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL), as the Linux player ramps up development for its flagship operating system. The development of RHEL 6 has been closely watched as Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) seeks to grow its already sizable share of the enterprise Linux market, though the company remains cagey over an exact release date. When it ships, RHEL 6 will provide new performance, virtualization and hardware enablement for Red Hat's enterprise users.

Microsoft and Red Hat, Linux and Windows aren't supposed to get along right? But they do, and apparently Microsoft and Red Hat are now getting along very well too. During a Q&A session during Red Hat's Analyst Day this week, Red Hat revealed that it's relationship with Microsoft isn't as stormy as it once was. "That relationship with Microsoft, believe it or not, is pretty strong,"Paul Cormier executive vice president and president, products and technologies at Red Hat said.

One of the important things to remember with Fedora Linux is that it is a platform on which solutions can be built. One such solution is the Sugar On A Stick Fedora Linux spin which adds the Sugar learning environment originally built for the One Laptop Per Child effort to Fedora and packages it up so it'll run on a USB stick. This week, following the release the Fedora 13, the Sugar On A Stick v.3 release came out, codenamed 'Mirabelle'. The Mirabelle release follows the Blackberry v.2 release that came out last December. So what's news? Well obviously Mirabelle benefits from all the changes in Fedora 13 for stability and ease of use. On the Sugar side the new release is now making it easier for users to customize the activities/applications that run on the stick.

Novell's openSUSE developers have been a busy bunch this week. Today openSUSE 11.3 milestone 7 is out which is the last stop ahead of a Release Candidate in June and a final release in July. The openSUSE Build Service 2.0 Beta 1 came out yesterday with a final release now set for June 10. The two releases are somewhat linked in a way. The openSUSE Build Service is a really neat offering was first announced back in 2007 and hit its 1.0 release in 2008. What the build service enables is any open source develop to build Linux packages for openSUSE as well as rival distros Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and Mandriva. The Build Service is also used in the actual building of the openSUSE distribution itself.

"We're creating a Cloud management engine based on the open source deltaCloud project," Scott Crenshaw, vice president and general manager of Red Hat's Cloud business, told InternetNews.com. "We haven't yet issued a delivery date for that product, but it will be sometime next year. We have people using deltaCloud now, but in terms of a fully supported product, it will be incorporated into a family of products for Cloud management that Red Hat will provide."

For some users (myself included) GRUB is a critical screen where you can select which operating system you want to load. That could be a different Linux kernel on the same OS, a different Linux distribution altogether or even Windows. Usually the way GRUB works by default is the user gets to select which kernel/OS they want to load with a time delay before a default kernel OS loads. That's where the GRUB bug comes into play.

Zend, one of the lead commercial PHP vendors, today announced that they have received another $9 million in venture capital funding, led by Greylock Partners. So my question is - if Zend is already successful, both in terms of technology and customers why does it still need additional venture funding? At this point, shouldn't revenue and cash flow from operations be enough to keep the company going?

Sitting at the heart of every Linux OS distribution is a Linux kernel. When it comes to the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 release, the issue of which kernel is being used is not a cut and dried answer, however. RHEL 6 is currently in its first beta release, with a feature freeze now in place. Currently, the mainline Linux kernel is nearing its 2.6.34 release, while the most recent stable release is the 2.6.33 release, which came out in February. But instead of either sticking with the 2.6.33 Linux kernel or holding out for 2.6.34, Red Hat is taking a different approach.