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Open-source software company MySQL has revamped its pricing and licensing practices in an effort to make its database more attractive to corporate customers.

Ask Jeeves is considering working with the Mozilla Foundation and contributing to the Mozilla project. Tuoc Luong, Ask Jeeves' executive vice president of technology, and Jim Lanzone, senior vice president of search properties, met with the Foundation late last month. Three possible areas of collaboration were discussed: Ask Jeeves Desktop Search, Mozilla Firefox and XUL. On the Ask Jeeves Blog, Luong has outlined the various possibilities.

At the annual LinuxWorld Conference& Expo this week, top-tier vendors in the Linux space will roll out a raft of enterprise products, with a few vendors laying out road maps for pushing their open source strategies higher in the enterprise.

Everyone knew the worst kept secret of LinuxWorld: that Red Hat would be introducing its latest server Linux. What wasn't expected was that Red Hat would use the announcement to attack Sun and Solaris.

The innovative intellectual property software firm announced at LinuxWorld that it has signed SAS as a customer and has improved its program by adding support for proprietary and commercial source code.

A second start-up has begun selling software aimed at making sure open-source and proprietary software don't intermingle.

Top Linux seller Red Hat on Tuesday announced the latest version of its premium Linux software, leapfrogging rival Novell and expanding an effort to coax customers away from Sun Microsystems.

Three years after Linux creator Linus Torvalds began using BitKeeper to manage the Linux kernel source tree, debates have continued to spring up on the Linux kernel mailing list. A BitKeeper press release from nearly a year ago claims that the move has resulted in doubling the pace of Linux kernel development, a claim examined in a later two part interview on NewsForge from last May, including comments from Linus and Larry McVoy. In spite of this significant boost in productivity, there remains a group who vehemently oppose Linus' choice to use BitKeeper.

SAN FRANCISCO - IBM is readying a number of new marketing programs that the computer giant hopes will encourage another 6,000 independent software vendors (ISVs) to port their software to the Linux operating system over the next three years. At the Linuxworld Conference& Expo in Boston Tuesday, the company will unveil its IBM eServer Application Server Advantage for Linux initiative, code-named Chiphopper, which is designed to ease the job of making Linux software run across all of IBM's servers.

Dear "open letter" writers: Please stop writing "open letters." They're a poor way to distribute your ideas, almost as bad as online petitions. There are more effective ways to make your point.

Oracle Invests Significant Resources to Provide a More Traditional Enterprise QA Environment for Linux

If you have ever wondered what Bill Gates says when he flies to Europe to meet with heads of state, we now have clarity, as business dudes might put it. Here's an article in Danish on precisely what Bill told Denmark he'd do if they opposed the software patents directive, followed by a rough translation by an alert Groklaw reader there, one of several to send this item to us.

Free Software Magazine launched last month in electronic format, with a print version due in April. Free Software has no central office, and is not funded by any venture capitalists with deep pockets. Article topics range from an analysis of XML to a discussion about intellectual freedom. Segments of Richard Stallman's blog are promised as a regular feature. A section of technically-oriented articles covers password management, LiveCDs, and programming free software on Mac OS X. The final section deals with economic, social, and political issues of free software. We spoke with editor-in-chief Tony Mobily about creating FSM and his goals for the magazine.

IBM is gearing up to try its hand at Linux diplomacy. Buoyed by the success of cooperative ventures promoting Linux in Brazil and a few other developing countries, IBM plans to spread its open-source philosophy to other parts of the globe in 2005.

IBM plans to launch on Tuesday a program to make Linux applications available across its entire hardware line.

Mitchell Baker has written a weblog posting discussing the relationship between mozilla.org staff and Mozilla Foundation employees. In the pre-Foundation days, mozilla.org staff was the group that managed the Mozilla project. Today, the Mozilla Foundation has several paid employees who are increasingly taking on roles previously performed by staff. The Mozilla leadership is currently considering how the position of mozilla.org staff can be revised to reflect the way the project operates now that the Mozilla Foundation exists.

Linux still isn't ready for grandma, but it might be ready for your stoner friend who'll experiment with anything or for a curious type willing to put up with some discomfort. This doesn't get us terribly far past the technology savvy desktop Linux lovers around today, but it pushes up against a point that could be called Freak Mainstream.

As competition intensifies in the market for smart phone OSes (operating systems), PalmSource is looking at ways to carve out a piece of market share. Earlier this month, the company acquired China MobileSoft (CMS) in a move aimed not only at gaining additional smart phone expertise but also Linux know-how. At the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, PalmSource unveiled four new applications that draw on its recent CMS acquisition. IDG News Service interviewed David Nagel, president and chief executive officer of PalmSource, shortly before the start of the wireless conference and exhibition, which runs through Thursday.

It's no longer a question of if Linux and open source will catch on, nor when, nor why.

HP and Fujitsu are expanding the Linux offerings in their blade server lines as well as some of their most powerful systems.