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ReadWriteWeb: PhoneGap released its next iteration last week and it has a variety of changes for developers to take advantage of.

PhoneGap has also been contributed to the Apache Software Foundation

IDG News Service: "In an attempt to help developers create more modular enterprise Java programs, the Apache Software Foundation has reconfigured its Geronimo application server to a set of standards established by the OSGi (Open Services Gateway initiative) Alliance."

InternetNews:Remember Apache Harmony? The Apache Software Foundation led effort to build a fully open source implementation of Java?

Linux and Open Source: "Citing its success with other donated projects, the Apache Software Foundation vowed to protect OpenOffice.org and prevent fragmentation."

Apache: OpenOffice.org is now officially part of the Apache family.

It has now been one year since The Document Foundation (TDF) announced the LibreOffice project, and by all counts, the open source software suite is flourishing.

After just one year, TDF estimates that there are now 25 million LibreOffice users worldwide.

The project has also seemed to generate a lot of interest from developers.

Just last week version 3.4.3 debuted with some significant security fixes –- a reminder that the project is still young, but also evidence that it is continuing to evolve.

OpenOffice.org is closer to becoming a community open source project sponsored by the Apache Software Foundation. Can the Apache way resurrect OpenOffice.org after Oracle ended commercial support and months of uncertainty created a LibreOffice fork?

Webopedia: "Formally called Apache Hadoop, it is an Apache Software Foundation project and is an open source software platform for scalable, distributed computing.

Hadoop can provide fast and reliable analysis of both structured data and unstructured data."

Oracle has contributed the OpenOffice.org code to the Apache Software Foundation’s (ASF) Incubator, marking the end of Oracle ownership of the popular Sun legacy open source project.

But, Oracle may retain the trademark as the agreement only mentions the code.

Information Week: "A NASA-led project has won the full support of the Apache Software Foundation, bolstering development efforts around Java-based middleware that uses metadata to foster cross-platform collaboration."