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Oracle has had a mixed bag of success with open source. As part of the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle inherited a long list of open source projects. Some of them, like OpenOffice and OpenSolaris have met with community opposition that have led to forks. The NetBeans IDE however is another story. Under Oracle's leadership, NetBeans is thriving with nearly a million active users. What makes NetBeans different? Why is it succeeding under Oracle's leadership while other projects are not doing as well?

OIN has continued to grow over the years, and for the first quarter of 2011, the group grew by over 70 new licensees including HP, Facebook and Juniper Networks. Though OIN aims to reduce patent risk, that doesn't mean that it eliminates all patent risk, just look at Oracle and Google. Oracle and Google are OIN members, yet they are both involved in a legal battle with each other over patents.

Final service pack for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 is released as Novell aims to provide longer support to customers. But wait, didn't they offer 10 year support before?

From the 'No Nattys Here' files: The Fedora community has voted on the name for the next major release of this Linux distribution. There were some 2,204 votes cast for the winner...Verne Yes, Verne. I personally had thought that, Beefy Miracle would win, but that name only ended up with 1,662 votes.

According to a recent study from The Patent Board, Red Hat's patent portfolio is now ranked 50th in the Information Technology category. The top patent holder in the IT category is IBM. Red Hat's position at number 50 is a 16 spot jump since November of 2010. Red Hat now holds 137 granted U.S. patents as part of its intellectual property portfolio. "Open source is Red Hat's mission, and our patent program is done for the purpose of protecting and defending Red Hat and open source," Rob Tiller, assistant general counsel and vice president, IP at Red Hat told InternetNews.com. "The patents relate to a variety of technologies."

Three years ago, Red Hat(NYSE:RHT)CEO Jim Whitehurst predicted that his company would be the first pure play open source vendor to hit $1 Billion in revenues. Red Hat is now nearly there.

The earnings growth comes as Red Hat locks down its Enterprise Linux kernel in an effort to impede competitive efforts.

Novell shareholders are going to have wait just a bit longer until they can cash in and be acquired by Attachmate for $2.2 billion. Though Novell shareholders have already approved the sale, the deal is contingent on Novell selling off 882 patents to CPTN Holdings - a group which includes Microsoft, Apple and Oracle. The CPTN patent sale is in the process of being reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice and according to a new regulatory filing from Novell - the process is going to take more time than first expected. The DOJ has issued a second request for information from Novell which Novell is complying with.

Do not track is one of the most hyped, and least understood, aspects of the next generation of Web browser. So what makes the Mozilla implementation different than others?

Fedora 15, codenamed 'Lovelock' now has its first alpha milestone available. This is a BIG release for Fedora in that it's the first Fedora of the post Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 era, and oh yeah first with GNOME 3, SystemD and BoxGrinder.

The annual Pwn2Own hacking challenge kicks off today, pitting security researchers against web browsers and mobile platforms. The HP TippingPoint sponsored event grows every year to include more platforms, though Linux isn't among them. Pwn2Own will target IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome all running on Windows 7. Windows XP isn't on the target list and neither is Linux, for different reasons. I spoke with Aaron Portnoy, Manager of the Security Research Team at HP TippingPoint the other day and asked him why Linux wasn't being included. Apparently the question is among the most common questions he is ever asked about Pwn2Own.

For Novell's first fiscal quarter of 2011, which ended on January 31, 2011, Novell reported revenues of $191 million. The first quarter 2011 revenue is a decline of nearly 6 percent from the $202 million in revenues Novell reported for the first quarter of 2010. On the net income side, Novell reported a net loss of $18 million or $0.05 per share which is in stark contrast with the first quarter of 2010 when Novell reported a profit of $20 million. Part of the Novell first quarter 2011 let loss stems from a $31 million tax charge related to Novell bringing non-U.S. cash back into the country. Novell's Linux business held its own during the quarter. Novell's Linux platform products earned $37.8 million in revenue during the quarter, an increase of 0.9 percent on a year-over-year basis.

There are a lot of 'touchy' issues in the open source world - none are perhaps more controversial than those involving money. One such case is the recent attempt by Ubuntu to redirect affiliate dollars away from the GNOME project and its Banshee media player - to Ubuntu's own bank account. It's a debate that this week hit Twitter with a flame war of vitriol and NSFW comments. Canonical announced this week that in Ubuntu 11.04, Banshee will have both the AmazonMP3 and Ubuntu One music stores and 25 percent of the revenues will be directed to the GNOME Foundation. GNOME founder Miguel de Icaza wasn't as polite Ewing, and also struck out aggressively at Ubuntu: @jonobacon Oh you are entirely within your rights. Douchebags, assholes and dicks almost never violate any laws. A dick move is a dick move

Novell is enhancing its partnership with SAP with an expanded Linux offering for SAP applications. Josh Dorfman, director of alliance marketing at Novell, told InternetNews.com that the new version of SLES for SAP Applications is based on SLES 11. "Most importantly, this covers all SAP workloads," Dorfman said.

Are one company's castoffs another company's treasure? Open source startup ForgeRock this week is celebrating its first year in business, thanks in part to technology giant Oracle. The core of ForgeRock identity offerings were born at Sun Microsystems, which has since been acquired by Oracle. ForgeRock has managed to take a number of open source technologies started at Sun, including the OpenSSO single sign on and identity platform, and position them as the foundation of a growing business. According to ForgeRock, the technologies that it is now building and evolving might not have had a future with Oracle, which has created an opportunity for the startup.

After 6 plus years of service, Red Hat is moving its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL 4) into a bug and security fix maintenance phase. The move follows the release of RHEL 4.9 which is the last update of RHEL 4.x that will include new features and hardware support. According to Red Hat, RHEL 4.9 included 200 updates including an update version of SystemTap. RHEL 4 was first released back in 2005 and was the first version of RHEL to be released after Red Hat discontinued its Red Hat Linux line (which has since transitioned to become the community Fedora Linux distro). RHEL 4 also marked the debut of SELinux which has been significantly enhanced over the years to be both more usable and powerful to secure enterprises. RHEL 4 was also the first version RHEL to have the 2.6 Linux kernel.

Want to run any type of Microsoft Silverlight 3 media on your Linux computer? Now you can. Novell is out this week with Moonlight 4 Preview, which is an open source implementation of the Silverlight media framework. Moonlight 4 Preview is the first major release of the open source media framework since Moonlight 2 was released in 2009. "We're finished with 3.0 APIs for Silverlight 3 and the preview is also showcasing half the APIs we need for Silverlight 4.0," Miguel de Icaza, Novell Moonlight's project leader, told InternetNews.com. "We probably have the most important 4.0 APIs, so people should be able to use it for day-to-day use."

The OpenStack open source cloud computing platform is out today with a new release codenamed Bexar, introducing new cloud computing and storage technologies. Bexar provides support for IPv6 as well as the ability to have unlimited storage. The Bexar release also includes preliminary support for Glance – a new technology that will enable cloud image discovery and delivery. OpenStack started out as a joint effort of NASA and Rackspace in July of 2010. The first platform release in October benefited from the contributions of over 35 technology vendors. With the new Bexar release, even more technology vendors are joining the effort, including Cisco and Canonical Ubuntu Linux.

Back in 2007, Mozilla launched the Prism effort to create web applications that could run on the desktop. Essentially Prism offered users a way to run a browser loaded to a specific web application. After a couple of years of active development, Prism development stalled in February of 2010 and there have been no updates about the project or its releases -- until now.

Dell will be making the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) technology available on Dell PowerEdge C2100 and PowerEdge C6100 servers. The UEC deal marks a major milestone for Ubuntu as it moves from Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) desktops to servers. "It is the first offer that involves Ubuntu Server Edition at Dell," Nicolas Barcet, Ubuntu Server product manager, told InternetNews.com. "So it's a major step extending the strong relationship we have had on Ubuntu Desktop and Netbook editions.

Trying to come up with a list of the top ten open source projects is never an easy task - which is why I was interested in a new list put out today by OpenLogic. The OpenLogic list is ranked by which open source projects, their customers purchased support on. Shockingly, Linux did not make the top ten...