June 27, 2008 (7:00:00 PM)  -  5 days, 12 hours ago

By: Bruce Byfie

via CIO.com - Open Source by Esther Schindler on 5/29/08

May 30, 2008—CIO— Open-source solutions used to be adopted quietly by company boffins who snuck in an Apache Web server or an open-source development tool suite under the philosophy "It's easier to get forgiveness than permission" (not to mention "It's easier to do it with open-source tools than to get an IT budget").

Posted from Red Hat News:

Today we released the second update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. As with earlier minor releases, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 comes with a broad set of bug fixes, updated hardware support capabilities, quality improvements, and a set of new software features that have been backported from upstream open source projects to the Enterprise Linux 5 code base.

Raleigh, NC – May 13, 2008 – The Fedora Project, a Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 9, the latest version of its open source operating system distribution. Fedora 9 continues to build upon a tradition of innovation as the community Linux distribution that offers the latest, cutting-edge features with continued delivery of quality and impact. It features the first non-destructive live USB with persistence, and marks the first major

Sun Microsystems used the opening day of its CommunityOne open source developer conference to release its OpenSolaris Operating System. The new offering was unveiled three years after Sun announced its open-source plan for the Solaris operating system. Alongside, Sun also released the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment Early Access for PHP.

Func had an interesting beginning. It began not in a whiteboard-lined conference room, but in a small coffeeshop in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Greg DeKoenigsberg, Adrian Likins, Seth Vidal, and I were discussing how to make Linux easier to manage for large install bases. That’s when we came up with the idea for Func.

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.

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.

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.