SFLC settles GPL lawsuit with Verizon. Novell anounces plans for SUSE 11. Sun launches open source initiative for SMB market. (and more)

BusyBox Developers Agree To End GPL Lawsuit Against Verizon, Software Freedom Law Center (Press Release)

Novell Announces Development Plans for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, Novell (Press Release)

Sun Microsystems Launches SMB Initiative; Delivers Complete Open Source Solutions to New Customers, Sun Microsystems (Press Release)

Open Source Software Gurus Converge in …

SCO files reorg plan with bankruptcy court. Acquia unveils Drupal commercialization plans. Microsoft expands support for web standards. (and more)

The SCO Group Files Formal Reorganization Plan With Bankruptcy Court, The SCO Group (Press Release)

Acquia Unveils Roadmap to Commercially Supported Drupal, Acquia (Press Release)

Microsoft Expands Support for Web Standards, Microsoft (Press Release)

Sun Microsystems Announces New Role Manager Software; Provides Overview of New Governance, Risk and Compliance …

EU fines Microsoft $1.3bn. Sourcefire CEO steps down. FSF launches project to end software patents. (and more)

Novell Reports Financial Results for First Fiscal Quarter 2008, Novell (Press Release)

Wayne Jackson to Step Down as Sourcefire Chief Executive Officer, Sourcefire (Press Release)

End Software Patents (ESP) Project Formed to Eliminate Software Patents, Free Software Foundation (FSF) (Press Release)

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Sun completes acquisition of MySQL. Adobe launches open source site, new version of Flex. Bluenog obtains $4m in new funding. (and more)

Sun Microsystems Announces Completion of MySQL Acquisition; Paves Way for Secure, Open Source Platform to Power the Network Economy, Sun Microsystems (Press Release)

Adobe Technology Platform for RIAs Propels Innovation on the Web, Adobe Systems (Press Release)

NewSpring Capital Leads $4mm Investment in Bluenog, Bluenog (Press Release)

Novell …

Thanks to Tony Lawrence for inspiring today’s post. Hopefully these links don’t stink. 

Anthony Lawrence: Reasons I Don’t Like Social Media

Tools that once were valuable for pointing out the best of the web often become obsolete or spammy (you might say this about Digg). Tony’s example is StumbleUpon, a link sharing site that I love.  He contends that the social networking site has become clogged with junk or at least doesn’t provide consistent "quality" links. [Updated: Actually check the post comments for …

Sun acquires innotek (VirtualBox). The 451 Group publishes report on GPLv3 impact. Alfresco releases open source survey results. (and more)

Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire innotek, Expanding Sun xVM Reach to the Developer Desktop, Sun Microsystems (Press Release)

The 451 Group: Latest Version of GPL Software License Causes Disruption in the Enterprise Open Source Industry, The 451 Group (Press Release)

Alfresco?s Open Source Barometer Survey Reveals Ubuntu & Red Hat Pulling Away in Linux-Based Operating System Deployments, Alfresco Software (Press Release)

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VMWare open sources Tools product. Sun adds virtualization features and PostgreSQL to Solaris 10. MySQL releases MySQL Enterprise update. (and more)

VMware Unveils VMware Tools as Open Source Software, VMWare (Press Release)

Sun’s Solaris 10 Advances Virtualization and Network Performance, Incorporates Open Source PostgreSQL Database, Sun Microsystems (Press Release)

MySQL Enterprise Simplifies Database Scale-Out with New Automated Replication Monitoring & Advisory Tools, MySQL AB (Press Release)

Embedded Systems Developers Demand Access to RTOS …

Thanks to MySQL community members we’ve got really great collection of media files from the recent mysqluc. Thanks to Seeri for all that work he’s done to collect everything in one place so we could watch/listen/read information from this great event.

So, if you did not attended mysqluc07, then you definitely should visit Technocation page, dedicated to this conference.

P.S. I’m going to post links to these videos and descriptions for the sessions on the Best Tech Videos soon, so If you are not sure to watch some video or not, just wait while I’m merging these links with information from mysqluc site.

The folks at del.icio.us must have made it harder to get on to the del.icio.us/popular page over the past few months.

When I first was listed on there you simply needed 10 bookmarks within the past 24 hours. I was looking at the article I published yesterday MySQL Optimization Hints and noticed that it has 28 bookmarks over the past 24 hours, and has not yet been listed on the popular page.

It appears that they still require only 10 recent bookmarks, but they have shrunk the window for what they call recent. It must be down to 10 bookmarks within 12 or 6 hours. Does anyone know the specifics?

I think nobody would argue today, that search engines are most import sites in todays Internet. There are lots of information sources in the Net today, and every day they are generating lots of useful content. One of major parts of this content is generated by forums aka bulletin boards. But Google - most popular search engine is not to efficient on this side of search - if you try to find something using Google, you can find information on some public forum, but Google SERP is designed for generic pages search and search results will be not so clear. That is why more specialized search engines are so popular. Technorati, Google and Yahoo blog search engines, etc are really popular today.

Just few days ago new search engine was released. Its name is Board Reader. IMHO, its major advantage of this search engine is specialization on search by …