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EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: Commerical open source network monitoring vendor Zenoss is rebranding and expanding its enterprise offerings this week.

EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: Why is Riverbed keeping Wireshark open source?

Datamation: "Novell officially announced the Baracus open project this week as a new effort to provide a network-based boot manager for provisioning and managing systems."

Linux.com: "Wireshark is an open source network packet analyzer. Without any special hardware or reconfiguration, it can capture live data going in and out over any of your box's network interfaces: Ethernet, WiFi, PPP, loopback, even USB."

Network World: "The big news in tech today is of course Intel buying McAfee, in a deal valued at about 7.7 billion dollars.

Hey, we are all friends here, lets round it off at an even 8b."

Network World: "There is a fervent debate going on in the open source community about cloud computing. Will the cloud kill open source?"

PacketFence: "The Inverse Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PacketFence 1.8.5. PacketFence is a fully supported, Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) system."

PacketFence press release: PacketFence is a fully supported, Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) system that runs on Linux

Cyber Cynic: "On July 16th, a security programmer named Brad Spengler, who designs an open-source network and server security program called grsecurity revealed on the full disclosures security mailing list that there was a security hole in the 2.6.30 Linux kernel."

LinuxPlanet: "One network storage software vendor, Openfiler, never needed to be convinced of the benefits of offering enterprises an open source network storage operating system."