Raleigh NC - November 7, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s
leading provider of open source solutions, today announced its plans to
enable independent software vendors (ISVs) to deliver appliance-based
solutions to their customers, broadening their market reach while
minimizing their development and support costs. The Red Hat Appliance
Operating System will allow applications that are certified on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux to be deployed as software appliances on the broadest
range of servers in the industry, including those running Red Hat

LONDON, October 15, 2007 –
Canonical Ltd. announced today the upcoming availability of version
7.10 of the Ubuntu Server, Desktop, Kubuntu and Edubuntu Editions. All
will be available for free download on Thursday 18 October. Canonical
is the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu.

PHOENIX, Ariz. (AstriCon 2007) - September 27, 2007 - Digium®, Inc.,
the Asterisk® Company, today announced it has acquired Switchvox, a
leading provider of IP PBX phone systems for small- and medium-sized
businesses (SMBs). The acquisition bolsters Digium's presence in the
SMB market and provides a strong platform on which to advance its
Asterisk-based unified communications solution.

NEW YORK, September 18, 2007 - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced IBM Lotus Symphony, a suite of free software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

Know a world where software sharing is a freedom
Local Free and Open Source Software Groups Celebrates Software Freedom Day 2007

Reference: Rick Bahague, SFD project coordinator
Contact: 09178840096

More than a hundred computer enthusiasts and users braved the
morning rainshower Saturday, September 15, to meet at the ASTI Building
in the UP Diliman Campus to celebrate this year's Software Freedom Day.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Aug. 15, 2007 — Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire XenSource, Inc. of , a privately held leader in enterprise-grade virtual infrastructure solutions, for approximately $500 million in a combination of cash and stock, which includes the assumption of approximately $107 million in unvested stock options.

Linux-Microsoft Lovefest at LinuxWorld Expo by ZDNet's
Paula Rooney -- For open source backers who love to bash Microsoft (and
other proprietary software companies), this LinuxWorld was not for you.
At the conference in San Francisco, key industry figures emphasized the
need for respect and cooperation between open source companies and
Microsoft because of the reality that customers will be using a mix of
open source [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (LinuxWorld Conference & Expo)—
07 Aug 2007. At the opening of the LinuxWorld/Next Generation Data Center trade show in San Francisco, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Novell today announced a new agreement to join forces to capture a larger piece of the growing open source application server market. Under the agreement, Novell will deliver and support WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE) as part of SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server, making it the industry's most comprehensive open source-based server offering.

SAN FRANCISCO (LinuxWorld Conference & Expo)—
07 Aug 2007. On the second anniversary of the creation of the openSUSE™ project, the community program this week marked two new milestones – the availability of the first beta of openSUSE 10.3 and the continued growth of the openSUSE Build Service.

ZDNet posted an interesting article about Microsoft's latest overtures to win over the open source community. It is significant in that it represents a complete about face from its initial position around open source (at one time describing it as "un-American" and "anti-capitalism.")

Some of the more significant moves Microsoft is doing around Open Source are: