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• Wall Street Beat: IT earnings boost market confidence

  Oracle, Red Hat and Micron earnings, along with good macroeconomic news, are pumping oxygen into tech stocks after the tragic March 11 earthquake in Japan disrupted markets worldwide.

• US government sides against Microsoft in Supreme Court patent case

  The U.S. government itself has come out against <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> in a Supreme Court case that may decide the way patents are protected.

• Java EE 7 specification gets unanimous approval

  The specification for the next version of Java Enterprise Edition has been approved unanimously, <a href="http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5162">according to a posting</a> on the Java Community Process website.

• Red Hat 'virtualizes' data with new JBoss ESB

  Red Hat has updated its ESB (enterprise service bus) software with an integration tool that allows users to aggregate data from multiple sources into a single view.

• Novell steps up to managing enterprise Linux servers

  Novell Thursday shipped software for managing enterprise Linux servers made by Novell and Red Hat, taking its systems management approach to a higher level.

• Red Hat, Google challenge software patents

  Red Hat, Google, Dell, and several other companies have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging "poor quality" software patents, Red Hat said on Thursday.

• Myriad updates come to open source software

  January was a busy month for open source software, with numerous packages receiving key updates and improvements. Since so many have been released in rapid-fire succession, now is a good time to take stock of what we've seen so far.

• Linux vendors teaming up for an app store

  There seems to be no end to the momentum propelling Linux into the mainstream these days, and this week news came out that's surely among the most exciting developments yet.

• New Linux kernel strengthens SMP support

  The latest release of the Linux operating system kernel offers a number of improvements that should speed up operations in SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) systems.

• Red Hat buddies up with Eucalyptus

  Eucalyptus Systems has struck a partnership with Red Hat that should ultimately ease the deployment of Eucalyptus private cloud platform on Red Hat software.

• Red Hat working on complex event processing software

  Red Hat will&amp;nbsp; preview next week a CEP (complex event processing) capability being added to the company's open source business rules management software.

• Red Hat acquires Makara

  Enterprise open-source software vendor Red Hat has acquired cloud software provider Makara, Red Hat announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

• Microsoft's hand in Novell deal bodes ill for Linux

  Attachmate may be the primary purchasing party in the Novell acquisition deal announced today, but the involvement of Microsoft means there's a fresh new threat to Linux looming on the horizon.

• Red Hat releases RHEL 6

  Red Hat on Wednesday released version 6 of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution.

• Cloud and virtualisation features set Fedora 14 apart

  Fedora 14, or "Laughlin," made its official debut on Tuesday, and it's packed with a raft of new features designed to enhance the experience for users of the open source desktop operating system.