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Ulteo is an interesting company co-founded by the founder of Mandrake Linux Gael Duval. When I spoke with Duval last year about the initial 1.0 release, he told me that the plan was to expand to Windows in 2009 -- and here it is.

Things are changing fast for the open source database MySQL. On Tuesday at the kick off of the MySQL Conference & Expo, Sun's open source database division announced new plans to release MySQL updates on a more rapid basis. The first of those releases, MySQL 5.4, is available in preview today, with MySQL claiming it to be up 90 percent faster than MySQL 5.1 for certain types of queries. "MySQL is so ubiquitous it will transcend its ownership," Karen Tegan Padir, vice president of MySQL and software infrastructure at Sun told InternetNews.com. "We saw it as Sun acquired MySQL and we will see it as Oracle acquired Sun. Oracle will be a very good steward to MySQL because they must. If they don't try and choose to squash it out, they won't be able to as it would accelerate."

"What is interesting to me about this move is that it really cements the idea that free software and open source are the profound driving forces behind software today," Shuttleworth said

Mozilla today is best known as a browser vendor, but one day it could be known as a Web services vendor, too. That's thanks to a services backend that has at its heart a Mozilla Labs project called Weave. Downloads and usage of the client software, which is available as a browser add-on called Weave Sync, remain relatively modest. Dan Mills, Mozilla Weave lead told InternetNews.com that Weave has had over 30,000 downloads, and around 6,000 to 7,000 daily users.

Ubuntu Linux 9.04 is set for release on April 23rd for both the server and the desktop, and though it will include many new features it will be lacking at least one key item -- Oracle certification. "Oracle is a litmus test for enterprise readiness," Shuttleworth told InternetNews.com. "So Oracle certification is far more important to us as a public testament to the reliability and ruggedness of Ubuntu than it is in terms of sheer volume."

Sitting inside of every networking device is an operating system. In the case of Alcatel-Lucent, that operating system is the Alcatel-Lucent Operating System (AOS), which today is getting a significant new upgrade -- even though it could be one of the last AOS releases before the company moves it to Linux.

The process of software development is one with multiple layers. At the base layer is the code which developers write, which is then compiled by the build system that puts the code together so it is ready for deployment. Code analysis vendor Coverity is now expanding its analysis beyond just the static code layer to include the sometimes overlooked build system.

The name "SourceForge" has been synonymous with development for years. Yet despite that association, CollabNet, the commercial vendor that owns the SourceForge Enterprise product line, is eliminating the SourceForge name from its product line-up.

Mozilla ramps up its support efforts, but still isn't looking to turn a profit. "We're not like the typical corporate support help desk," David Tenser, Mozilla's support lead, told InternetNews.com. "The motivator for the amazing people providing support within the Mozilla community isn't money -- it's gratitude, appreciation, recognition, and a feeling of making a difference by helping people with Firefox." "SUMO is all about that."

Red Hat today announced a new open source effort called Teiid that is all about virtual Enterprise Information Integration (EII). The problem that it solves is one we're all familiar with -- data lives in multiple sources and environments and users don't always want to have to physically move/copy it to make use of it for data integration. The way Teiid is supposed to work is it focuses on data virtualization allowing real data access without having to move data

The open source Asterisk VoIP PBX is now at its 1.6.x release -- it's a number that Asterisk is going to stay at for a long time. "Basically everything is now a candidate for a 1.6.x release," Fleming said. "We're much like the Linux kernel in that way, we see no reason why we will need an Asterisk 1.8."

PHP is one of the most popular languages for Web development and is a critical component of the LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) (define) stack. Now PHP is getting a stack of its own, thanks to the new Zend Server, which packages PHP for Web application deployment and monitoring. While Zend Server could be thought of as PHP middleware, in the same sense as Java middleware, Gutmans sees it a little differently. "I personally wouldn't call it middleware exactly -- but it is," Gutmans said. "PHP is the back end of the front end, and front end of the back end, depending on how you look at it. It can definitely be used and is used as middleware, but I typically just say Web application server because I think that's how people best understand it."

The first Beta for FreeBSD 7.2 has been released, updating network drivers as well as some threading libraries. Beyond its own development efforts, FreeBSD also might soon benefit from the Debian Linux community as well. Debian users will soon be able to choose to use a FreeBSD kernel (instead of a Linux kernel).

Microsoft might be betting big on Windows 7, the next version of its flagship operating system, but to Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth, the upcoming release is really an opportunity for Linux to shine. "The next billion PC users won't be as interested in compatibility with Microsoft Office as they are in connecting to Twitter and staying connected to their social network through the Web," Shuttleworth said. "The business models are changing and it means that the growth of the PC industry is going to be strongly attracted to alternative to Windows -- that's my belief."

I've been writing about Intel's Moblin since 2007. The basic idea is that it's a mobile Linux distribution as well as a community for mobile Linux developers. For Intel, it is a key effort as it works hand in hand with their Atom CPUs. Now after two years of going it on their own, Intel is transferring the effort to the Linux Foundation. Considering that initially at least, Moblin was not something that was welcomed by embedded Linux vendor MontaVista, the move to have Moblin be more open is a good thing.

Novell is making it easier for a Microsoft .NET developer to deploy their applications on Linux, whether they develop their applications on Windows or on Linux, with the release of Mono 2.4. Mono is a .NET on Linux implementation and the new version, released Monday, promises greater compatibility and better performance for deploying .NET apps on Linux. Also, Novell is also releasing MonoDevelop 2.0, an improved IDE (define) for building .NET applications

There have been questions about Sun's leadership of the JCP for years dating back to at least 2002 and percolating still with the soon to be finalized JavaEE 6 specification as well. With IBM (NYSE: IBM) owning Sun, leadership of the JCP could shift and that would be a change welcomed by members of the executive committee of the JCP as well as Java stakeholders outside of the JCP. "Sun's inability to invest in the JCP combined with its desire to maintain control is stifling the innovation and investment in Java," Rich Sharples, director of product management at JBoss, told InternetNews.com.

I asked Sam Ramji senior director of platform strategy at Microsoft about TomTom the other day and he claimed that patent issues aren't causing any chilling effect on his part of Microsoft's open source plans.... That said, last year at OSCON, Ramji was quite literally mobbed by the audience after his presentation by attendees that were 'curious' about Microsoft's patent stance.

Just because Microsoft Windows itself is a proprietary, closed-source operating system doesn't mean that the software giant isn't open to open source. "We're seeing open source applications adopted on the Windows platform," Ramji told InternetNews.com. "The rationale is that you can use the existing hardware and software investments that you've made to deploy workloads."

Novell today is rolling out the newest edition of its flagship enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 11. The new releases are the first major updates since the SLES and SLED 10 releases in July of 2006. With SLES 11, Novell is also providing a baseline image so software vendors can easily build appliances. The concept is something know as a JeOS (Just enough Operating System) and has been trumpeted by Novell as the future of operating systems. "We designed SLES 11 to be ubiquitous, to run in physical, virtual and cloud models," Steinman said.