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The next big release of the open source Eclipse IDE will be all about going online. "E4 is a technology incubator for both technology ideas and community that we want to see evolve the Eclipse platform," Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, told InternetNews.com. "E4 is focused on a number of main areas, the first is bringing Eclipse to the Web." The move online will take some time, Milinkovich expects the first E4 beta to ship this summer with a final release not targeted until 2010.

For the last two and a half years, Oracle has been selling its own supported version of Linux based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). But the company claims it's not a fork. That's an important distinction for Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), which makes billions from its products running on Linux, and is a very active player in the open source OS's ecosystem.

Data and personal content exists in many different silos across the Internet, amd getting them all into a single interface and sharing them is no easy task. One potential solution to the problem is set to be demonstrated next week by open source software vendor Open-Xchange with an approach that uses semantic microformats as a mechanism for sharing and publishing data in a collaborative manner.

There was a time when having an IT certification was the key to getting a job -- that time may be here again. Back in 1999, when many of my colleagues were out getting MCSE's and CNEs (remember those?), Red Hat launched its Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) program. Ten years later, the program is still kicking, with Red Hat now boasting that it has certified over 38,000 people -- that's a pretty big number. Then again, think of how far Linux has come in the last ten years -- think of how far Red Hat has come too.

IBM is reportedly in talks to acquire Sun for a whopping $6.5 billion. At this early stage, its not known whether this is a rumor or just a fact. But just for the sake of argument let's consider what a powerhouse IBM Sun would be. In my opinion it would be a boon to both the Unix and Linux markets.

the Hadoop framework for running applications across large clusters could see a boost -- thanks to the first official commercial distribution from its lead backer, Cloudera. "We work closely with developers at Yahoo!, Google and Facebook, and we expect that to continue," Bisciglia told InternetNews.com. "They have solutions for some of the deployment problems we are addressing for regular users, but it's obvious that we all see the value in converging the code that runs on production systems. I'd rather not speculate on specifics, but I am excited to continue working with [those] organizations."

Red Hat and Cisco have joint beta site customers (plural) for the Unified Computing System. That's A BIG DEAL. During Cisco's press conference yesterday, Cisco claimed to have only 10 beta sites for UCS in total. That means that at least 20 percent (and maybe more if you consider that several means more than one) of Cisco's UCS business will be Linux from day one.

A new report out today from IDC, sponsored by Linux vendor Novell indicates that the current economic downturn is a good thing for Linux adoption. with more than half of the IT executives surveyed planning to accelerate Linux adoption in 2009. This is definitely something we've heard before from multiple open source and Linux vendors, but the IDC report puts some numbers to the premise.

While Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) is not a full-fledged open source company today, the company argues that it is making "open" efforts for its Web technology -- and it sees active participation in the broader open source ecosystem a key way to spread its offerings. "It's a changing mindset -- the company understands the value of releasing specifications and moving to standards," McAllister said. "We're beginning to really understand the value in using open source in growing the developer ecosystem. But it's an ongoing process."

The SoC is an effort that first started in 2005 as an effort to get student involved in open source code development. Google provides a stipend to the student and to the mentoring organization that helps the student. The SoC started off in 2005 with an allocation for 200 students and a budget of $1 million, which ultimately grew to 410 students that same year. In 2008 it grew to a staggering 1,125 students which totaled an open source cash infusion of at least $5.6 million dollars. 2009 is a recession year -- even for Google, so initially (at least), Google is capping the number of students for the SoC at 1,000.

Vyatta has been offering an open source alternative to proprietary networking gear since 2006, and with the new release is aiming to expand its share. The new Vyatta release comes as the big networking vendors Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Juniper roll out new silicon to provide greater high-end capacity and network performance. Vyatta, however, isn't necessarily after the high-end of the market. "The ultra high end of the market will always be silicon switching," Dave Roberts, vice president of strategy and marketing at Vyatta told InternetNews.com. "The question is how far can go with software."

What's more mature HP's Unix or Linux? According to HP, it's UNIX. For the past 25 years, HP has been rolling out its HP-UX Unix operating system on a regular basis to support mission-critical operations. That's going to continue with the company's upcoming update to HP-UX. The release, codenamed "Vigilance" and officially referred to as HP-UX 11i v3 Update 4, will offer improved virtualization capabilities and performance, InternetNews.com has learned.

Acquia's new CEO isn't the only major development for Drupal this week. Acquia also rolled out a new search service for Drupal Web sites, cloud-based hosting, and new Drupal application stacks. The plan is that new releases will give Acquia a greater competitive edge against commercial competitors while providing additional support for its open source code base. "Up until now, much of the focus around Acquia has been on serving the existing, large Drupal community," Erickson told InternetNews.com. "We believe ... we can now make the community larger and do more outreach to people that are non-Drupal users today. "

what we have shaping up in the next round of Linux distribution releases is a German Philosopher (openSUSE 11.2) squaring off against a Koala (Ubuntu) and the Spartan King Leonidas (Red Hat Fedora 11). Do names say a lot about the different distros themselves?

There are some devs out there that don't like PHP, then there are those that do.

Nokia might be best known as a global mobile phone giant, but it's also making waves in the open source software business, too. The company's Qt Software division this week released the latest edition of its open source application framework, Qt version 4.5, with improvements that will expand cross-platform capabilities and increase performance. Nokia's also seizing the opportunity to launch a new developer tool, called Qt Creator

We're not a breaking news organization. We don't do what you do," Zemlin told me. From a strategic branding point of view it also makes tremendous sense for the Linux Foundation to own Linux.com "The thing that is different here is if you look at Linux.com, it's a strategic asset of the Linux platform," Zemlin told me. "It goes with managing the Linux brand which is owned by Linus Torvalds and managed by the Linux Foundation. What we really wanted to achieve here is to create a place where the community can come together."

Novell's management was asked why Novell's Linux business wasn't performing at the same level at which Red Hat's Linux business is performing. Red Hat's most recent set for financial results showed improvements in revenue and income. Novell executives answered that Novell's business is a different one than Red Hat's for a number of reasons. "We will continue to be aggressive with the Linux tool and product in order to drive more of our other management products and other products that sit above that," Hovsepian stated. "So fundamentally we have a different strategy on long-term value of Linux in the marketplace and as part of our portfolio. We see it as an important part but we see the long-term profitability coming from these other categories for our business."

Cisco is one of the top contributors to Linux, but what exactly are they doing? In an exclusive interview Cisco exec detail what Cisco is doing in terms of direct Linux kernel contributions, whether or not there is a Cisco Linux and detail a microgrant program that gives grants to open source efforts.

It's not all about the code in the Linux ecosystem. Any Linux project needs leadership. Markus Rex is one such leader. In an interview with InternetNews.com Rex discusses what working for the Linux Foundation was like, what he's got in the works at Novell and what challenges he sees on the road ahead for Linux and Open Source.