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There is a report out that claims that the renewed Google Mozilla deal is worth $300 per year. WHAT? Yup I did a double take when I saw that figure too. Sure I'm a believer in Mozilla, but $300 million sure does seem like an obscene amount amount...or does it?

Mozilla faced its fair share of criticism this year when they moved to the rapid release cycle. Enterprises argued that they couldn't update as fast as Firefox is being released, with new browsers out every six weeks. As it turns out, Linux vendor Red Hat isn't updating with every Firefox release either.

"There are a lot of obvious reasons, why open source makes sense. This isn't a new topic, but every so often another 'new' survey emerges that reminds us of the core fundamentals.

Yeaah, I know, WordPress is blogging software right? Well yes and no. WordPress has evolved to become the most popular open source Content Management System (CMS) in recent years besting Drupal and Joomla (as far as I can tell) in terms of sheer user numbers (admittedly not the best metric). WordPress itself claims a staggering 65 million downloads since the 3.0 release.

Miguel de Icaza started the GNOME project back in 1997 along with Federico Mena. In recent years, my interactions with De Icaza have been all about Mono, the open source implementation of .NET. Even more recently, De Icaza's focus has narrowed further with his new startup Xamarin that is focused on mobile development.

From the 'Don't always believe what you read' files: There has been some 'confusion' in recent days about the status of Mozilla's relationship with Google. Some have speculated (incorrectly) that the deal is over, leaving Mozilla without its chief source of revenue.

According to IDC's Q3 2011 Server stats, Linux server revenues for the quarter grew to $2.3 billion. That's a 12.3 percent year-over-year gain. Overall, Linux holds an 18.6 share of total server revenues.

The term open core is poison for an open source project today isn't it? More often than not, the term open core refers to some crippled piece of open source software that only really works when paired with some type of proprietary shell that make the software usable. Yet, the open core model – is still what many open source software firms (or at least, those that have raised venture funds) are embracing. There is another way. It's called the Layered Open Source Model

Mozilla developers have landed some interesting new mobile features for the upcoming Firefox 11 for Android release. The new features will enable the browser to take full advantage of underlying hardware features, including the ability to vibrate, use a camera, check battery status and send an SMS.

The openSUSE Linux distribution is out with a new release today, providing users with new desktop, cloud and backup features. One of the key new features in the openSUSE 12.1 release is the Snapper tool that helps users to take full advantage of the Btrfs filesystem.

Platform as a Service offering advances with some new Java dev features, but it's still not open source (yet).

Oracle is in an interesting position. It is now a supporter of both Linux and Unix with their own Oracle Enterprise Linux and Solaris Unix operating systems. This past week, Oracle released Solaris 11 their first official Unix release and it made me wonder if the new Solaris is changing Oracle's position on Linux.

The first Release Candidate (RC 1) for PHP 5.4 is now out, marking the end of the feature development phase of the next generation of PHP.

Remember Apache Harmony? The Apache Software Foundation led effort to build a fully open source implementation of Java? Guess what? The project is now (mostly) dead and that's not good news.

What does it take to build a Cloud OS? According to Oracle, it takes a high degree of performance, scalability, security and manageability which are all baked into the new Solaris 11 operating system.

Fedora 16 also includes the open source OpenStack cloud platform, which some industry pundits have seen as being a competitive technology to Fedora's Red Hat sponsor. Smith noted that in the case of Fedora, OpenStack is not a competitor with Aeolus.

"Aeolous and Open Stack are not competitive at all," Smith said.

OpenMAMA is an effort to standardize and simplify the MAMA APIs that have been in use since at least 2002. The basic idea behind have an open source implementation of MAMA is to have a level-set, a baseline implementation that is used to promote interoperability.

"In the month that this was released we had 110,000 new users of UbuntuOne," Shuttleworth said. "25,000 of them had never used Ubuntu before. 25,000 users are coming to this platform just because of Ubuntu One."

Ubuntu now has 20 million users as founder takes aim at Unity interface criticism and lays out a plan for the cloud, desktop and everything in between.

I make no apologies for being a huge fan of the Asterisk open source PBX project. I've been a user since the 1.0 release, which is coincidentally the first time I ever wrote about the project, all the way back in 2004. Today Asterisk 10.0 is being released and just like the first Asterisk, it offers a whole lot of practical promise.