By Kevin Fogarty (CIO.com)
In case you needed any more evidence that basic virtualization capabilities were becoming a commodity, Dell has announced a wave of servers and services designed to "simplify the deployment and management of virtualization in enterprises of any size," per a company press release.

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By Theresa Bui-Friday (SYS-CON)
Hybrid applications made up of proprietary, open source and third-party components are the result of today’s fast-paced and complex software development landscape. Applications developed within the last five years – whether internal or external – are at least 50% open source software (OSS) and third-party components. Of that amount, over one-third of it is undocumented. What were once purely proprietary applications are now complex code mashups. It’s safe to say that open source is everywhere – it’s woven throughout your enterprise network whether or not you are aware of it.

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By Eric Lai (Computerworld)
Aras Corp. was a small, struggling software maker that stirred up a hornet's nest early last year, when it made a pair of seemingly contradictory decisions.
First, the Andover, Mass.-based company made its expensive — we're talking up to a million dollars for a single license — product life-cycle management (PLM) software available on a free and open-source basis.
Second, rather than trying to curry favor with the mainstream open-source community by making even a vague commitment to port its software to Linux, Aras said outright that it would continue developing only for Windows. And instead of distributing its wares through a mechanism such as the GNU General Public License, the company decided to use one of Microsoft's so-called shared-source licenses, which at the time had yet to be accepted by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) as legitimate open-source licenses.
The reaction, unsurprisingly, wasn't favorable.

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By Mark Hinkle (Socialized Software)
I remember when the big open source debate was whether a piece of software was really open source, meaning it was released under an OSI-approved license. The tides are shifting, debates now center around which open source license to use. Adding to the complexity of the debate is proliferation of OSI-approved licenses.

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By Virtualization News Desk (SYS-CON)
Citrix announced the availability of Citrix XenServer software factory integrated on Dell PowerEdge servers. Citrix and Dell have partnered to make integrated server virtualization technology a reality for customers of all sizes.

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By Mark Hall (Computerworld)
Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, complains about the hype around software as a service (SaaS), likening it to other trends that target IT but fizzle. "We've seen that movie before," he grumbles.
But that's SaaS. S+S is a different story. During a day-long briefing at Microsoft headquarters here on "software + services" (the local parlance for SaaS), Tim O'Brien, senior director of platform strategy, acknowledged that "this business is huge." And even Turner says, "We're going to lead in this area."

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By Walaika Haskins (TechNewsWorld)
Dell on Wednesday pushed out a wide line of virtualization hardware and services meant to target large and small businesses. Its strategy includes consulting services for implementation and maintenance of virtualization solutions.

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Mainsoft Corporation, a leading provider of .NET-Java EE interoperability software and an advanced IBM business partner, today announced the release of its SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes. This add-on to IBM Lotus Notes 8, an Eclipsed-based Rich Client Platform based on Java, provides point-and-click access to Microsoft SharePoint content...

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By Johnny Evans (InfoWorld)
Parallels Desktop for Mac will be made available as part of the Microsoft Expression Subscription, opening up Microsoft software to Mac-based designers.

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By Dan Farber (CNET Blogs)
I managed to hook up with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz for a video interview. We talked about Project Hydrazine, a new cloud computing initiative with services similar to what Google and Amazon.com offer. We also discussed JavaFX, Sun's competitor to Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight, and Project Insight, which is designed to gather instrumented user action data via JavaFX and provide it to developers.

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Linux Today (from Silicon.com)
"Is the debate about open source finally over? The practicalities of managing open source in a business context became clear years ago. In that environment, open source is difficult and cumbersome, so surely the honeymoon period should have ended long ago.
"Of course, open source has found its niche and will continue to be of practical value in the realm of web and network security. But its application to business is limited. Many of my colleagues are now reaching similar conclusions..."

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By Matt Asay (CNET Blogs)
The Sun faithful who attended the CommunityOne Conference this morning may not have noticed, but Sun and its MySQL executives were very clear about Sun's open-source strategy going forward, despite news reports that seem to have missed the nuances:
The core will always be 100 percent open source. The periphery...will not. Or might not. It depends.

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By David Needle (Internetnews.com)
Adhere and MuseGlobal team up to significantly extend the scope of searchable information.
Google's Search Appliance offering for businesses may get a leg up in the enterprise thanks to the addition to a suite of add-ons that promise to greatly extend the scope of its searches.

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By Dan Nystedt (IDG News Service)
General class-action lawsuit accuses Yahoo of failing to act in the best interest of shareholders in rejecting Microsoft's bid. Two public pension funds from the city of Detroit plan to expand a complaint against Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and other members of Yahoo's board of directors, saying they failed to act in the best interest of shareholders in rejecting Microsoft's bid to buy Yahoo.

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By Erika Morphy (LinuxInsider)
IBM will be making a big play for small businesses later this year when it launches its one-stop-shop for SMBs' computing needs. The Linux-based program brings together Big Blue's entire ecosystem of partners, compiling all of their offerings into one handy catalog. It combines the Lotus Foundations Start server with a Web platform for running software and includes an application integration toolkit.

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