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Linux software distributor Red Hat Inc. said Tuesday that Bob Young, the company's co-founder and former chief executive, is resigning from the board.

Frustration is what led John Roberts to abandon the world of proprietary software development.

He jumped ship last year as director of product management at US software company E.piphany, recently acquired by another enterprise software company, SSA Global, and with two other E.piphany executives founded a commercial open-source project and a company, SugarCRM, which he now leads.

Analysis Plumtree is being acquired by BEA. This raises two points. The first is the perennial question of integration that arises whenever a vendor buys another that has a directly competing offering: how will the two products be merged? How long will it take? Will they, in fact, be merged at all? If not, how long will the acquired product continue to be supported? And so on and so forth. Interesting questions but it is not my intention to address these in this article.

The Free Standards Group, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing and promoting open source software standards, and the LSB workgroup today announced thirteen leading Linux vendors have united behind its new Linux Standard Base Desktop project and pledged their support.

Scott McNulty write: "Some of you are thinking, 'a browser is a browser is a browser,' and that's where you are wrong. Joe Kissell has penned a fantastic article uncovering all sorts of neat tricks and shortcuts that you can use in Firefox. This article will transform you from a Firefox booster to Firefox pro in just a few minutes." Full Story - MacWorld

Sorting out the facts from the errors and omissions in recent reaction to Massachusetts' announcement to use OpenDocument.

Advanced solutions offer expanded performance, availability and service level management for business-critical email applications

Altiris Helps Deliver Network Security Adding Heterogeneous Network Management, System Assessment and Remediation for NAC-Enabled Networks

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium comprising over 70 of the world's largest Linux customers, has announced the formation of the Mobile Linux Initiative (MLI), a new working group dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, in a rapidly-growing mobile market.

PalmSource has joined the MLI, and as founding member, PalmSource will be expected to work with other OSDL members and the development community, to advance use of Linux in mobile devices. The company had announced last year, that it would build its new applications' framework on, and port its Palm OS platform to run on Linux.

The open source software (OSS) movement started as a result of dissatisfaction with the proprietary software world. It is a global initiative that is correcting a seriously broken system in which vendors are taking undue advantage of consumers and depriving the consumer of choice.

Many IT professionals ask me when Linux will finally "make it" on the desktop. How will they know when Linux has made it? What's holding it back? In what ways is Microsoft working behind the scenes to inhibit the adoption of Linux desktops?

Motorola and PalmSource have signed up to efforts to put Linux on mobile phones.

The Mobile Linux Initiative has been launched by Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) to tackle technical challenges and support the adoption of Linux on handheld devices.

(Eben Moglen) A polymath who wrote code for IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) in the 1970s while he was earning a law degree and a Ph.D in history at Yale, Moglen enjoys using the tools of capitalism against itself. He’s wrung significant concessions out of software companies without filing a suit, including forcing Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) to “open up” the code in Linksys routers soon after it bought the company for $500 million in 2003.

“I was always able to begin that phone call with the magic words “I don’t want money,’” Moglen says, chuckling. “I only want you to play by the rules.”

The ship may not win any interior design awards, but the latest Geek Cruise made up for that with smart minds giving great talks--both on the schedule and off.

Microsoft: what part of the word 'open' do you not understand?

From Sam's PlexNex Blog

Sam Hiser is the former Marketing Lead for OpenOffice.org and has worked with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) teams in gaining acceptance globally.

Standardized Linux desktop components are needed in order for the Linux desktop to achieve widespread adoption, according to the Free Standards Group (FSG).

The popular GNOME (define) and KDE (define) environments are among the more popular Linux desktops, as well as up and comers like the Xfce environment. Though efforts are underway to help create some compatibility between the various desktops, to date there has not been a standards body effort to create a Linux desktop standard.

To that end, the FSG is spearheading an initiative called The Linux Standard Base Desktop Project with the aim of standardizing core pieces of the Linux desktop. The effort has already gained support from a who's who of Linux industry vendors, including Red Hat, Novell, IBM, HP, Intel and Adobe.

The Free Standards Group and its Linux Standard Base work group Tuesday announced the formation of the Linux Standard Base Desktop Project, with the support of Adobe Systems Inc., Intel Corp., IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co., Linspire Inc., Mandriva SA, Novell Inc., RealNetworks Inc., Red Hat Inc., Trolltech, Xandros Inc., and others.

The LSB (Linux Standard Base) Desktop Project's goal is to standardize common libraries and application behavior so as to make it easier for ISVs (independent software vendors) to write Linux desktop programs.

The Marathon series from ASC is the world's first Linux based communications recorder providing reliability and open source flexibility rarely found elsewhere. The feature rich series is an offering from a vendor who has its presence in more than 60 countries and forty years of experience. Designed to work with most telephone systems in use in the UAE, the range is customizable to the highest degree for use in any critical operation.

Broad Vendor Support and Integrations Enable More Than 10,000 Enterprise Customers to Run Business-Critical Server Applications and Platforms in VMware Virtual Infrastructure Environments

Beta tests begin on ESX Server 3 and VirtualCenter 2, two products aimed to advance the virtualization trend.