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Linux User and Developer: "Craig Muzilla, vice president and general manager of the Middleware business unit at Red Hat, is a busy man.

While Red Hat is known for its Linux distribution(s), the company acquired a major enterprise software business in JBoss.

That was back in 2006, when words like 'SOA' and 'AJAX' were all the rage."

The Standards Blog: "Cloud computing is all the rage today, with everyone from the U.S. Federal government to Apple herding us into a brave new world of remotely hosted data and services.

There are, of course, many advantages to the cloud concept. But as usual, this new IT architecture has some inherent and serious risks that cloud proponents hope potential customers will not dwell on."

IT Wire: "Social networks are all the rage today and with that in mind, the FSF is driving the creation of social networking software which should provide similar functionality to Facebook with two important differences - privacy and freedom are in the user's hands."

Geo-targeting and location-based services are all the rage these days, with a core group of startups already fighting for market share.

But Facebook, Google and Twitter are hot on their heels. Here's a look at who offers what, and how they aim to make money.

Cloud services are all the rage today, although some of my

Non-SQL oriented distributed databases are all the rage in some circles. They're designed to scale from day 1 and offer reliability in the face of failures.

Remember when custom Twitter backgrounds were all the rage?

Putting Linux on mobile phones is all the rage these days, what with Google's Android popping up on prototypes left and right, and even the venerable Palm pushing the Pre, a penguin-phone of its own.

That wasn't always true, though, but way back in those dark days of proprietary phoning — at least a little ways back — there was Openmoko bringing us hope of truly-open telephony.

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Open Source in the public sector seemed to be all the rage in 2008, with government agencies all over Europe — not to mention agencies of the EU itself — adopting, and in many cases, mandating Open Source software and standards.

Of course, Europe was not the only continent cozying up with a copy of the source code — governments in Africa, Asia, North & South America, and all over the South Pacific were exploring and implementing Open Source in 2008.