From C|NET News.com

I made this same point over the weekend in a post or three. But when it comes from Linus Torvalds, it means­ more.

When asked in an InformationWeek Q&A how Linux compares with Windows, Torvalds didn't go into a marketing discussion of Feature Y over Feature X. Instead, he discussed the strength of Linux's process/app­roach over Windows' "We are Microsoft--trust us to be your god" approach:

From C|NET Blogs

One of t­he primary problems with sites like Facebook and MySpace is that they provide a somewhat specious view of one's "social graph" (dumb but popular way of saying "true network of relationships"). I have ~2,400­ people in my address book, but only a fraction of those are true "friends" in the sense that normal people use the term. My email system (as well as my phone records and IM history) knows exactly who are my real friends (as Tim O'Reilly frequently notes). Friendship without communication is...not really friendship.

From eWeek.com

Linux is becoming a credible threat to Windows on the desktop, and will grow over the next year as its distributors continue to work hard at making it an enterprise-class offering, research group Forrester predicts.

From eWeek.com

Database administrators increasingly find open-source technologies in Oracle data centers. A recent poll of the Independent Oracle Users Group found 13 percent of user organizations are running a majority of applications on open source, up 30 percent from 2006, according to the survey, entitled "Open Source in the Enterprise: New Software Dis­rupts the Technology Stack."

UR Solutions was recently appointed by Untangle, The integrated Open Source Network Gateway software designed for spam blocking, web filtering, remote access and more, to be its RP partner for marketing and technical support. UR Solutions has been in the business of open source for the past three years and will be an ideal partner for this exciting new software that will make gateway management a much easier task.­

From Yahoo!

Acquisition of Innovative E-mail Company Bolsters Leadership in Communications; Extends Expertise to Universities, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses and Service Provider Partners

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sep 17, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) --

From Channel Insider­

Citrix Systems is acquiring XenSource, whose founders helped develop the open-source Xen hypervsior, for $500 million in a move that caps a significant week in the development of virtualization technology.The XenSource acquisition, which both companies announced Aug. 15, comes just a day after VMware, which has long been the dominant player in the x86 virtualization market, announced an initial public offering of 33 million shares of stock. By the end of its first day of trading, the company's stock closed at almost $51 a share.The purchase of XenSource by Citrix also comes a few days after XenSource launched the latest version of its XenEnterprise, which offers several improvements compared to previous versions and looked to compete with VMware's Virtual Infrastructure suite.The XenSource acquisition, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter, was not totally unexpected. Citrix has been advocating for faster delivery for Web- and Windows-based desktop applications.

From eWeek.com

It seems round two of the Untangl­e Anti-Virus Fight Club has begun.

McAfee officials and others are taking issue with the methodology of a live test that pitted proprietary anti-virus products from vendors such as McAfee and SonicWALL against the open source project ClamAV at
LinuxWorld. The test was the brainchild of Untangle Chief Technology Officer Dirk Morris, who has said ClamAV was not getting treated fairly by testers.

From INQUIRER.net

MAKATI CITY, Philippines -- A Filipino venture capitalist advocating the open source model in software development has founded an incubation firm to help local, smaller software vendors get to market quickly­ using the software as a service delivery model.

From eWeek.com

A global survey of open-so­urce enterprise users of Alfresco software has found that deployments of Red Hat Linux have grown twice as fast as those for Novell SUSE Linux since Novell signed its controversial patent and interoperability agreement with Microsoft in November 2006.