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CIO Update: "Open source vendor Red Hat is betting on a year-old open source effort that it hopes will further open up the Cloud."

InfoWorld: "One way for open source vendors to respond is through proprietary features. News that Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) provides a MySQL 5.1 relational database in the cloud has met with a lot of interest.

On the surface, this is good news for open source users and proponents."

IT Wire: "The driver code that Microsoft contributed to the Linux kernel this week was originally in violation of the GPL, a post by Stephen Hemminger, an engineer with open source vendor Vyatta, says."

InternetNews: "Managing power locally can be as simple as flipping a switch, but what happens when you've got hundreds of sites geographically dispersed?

It's a problem that open source vendor Opengear is now tackling with a new release of its hardware console server software."

At the beginning of the year, many analysts predicted that, given the economic climate, this would be the year for mergers and acquisitions.

Indeed, they were right: acquisitions are up in everything from banking to technology, with the latter category perhaps best represented by Oracle's surprise snatch of Sun Microsystems just a few weeks ago.

After months of mounting dissatisfaction with the way Sun Microsystems was evolving the MySQL database, the founders of the popular open source vendor have decided to move on.