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• Fedora 14 release heads for the cloud

  The Red Hat-backed Fedora Linux operating system has reached version 14 which marks the beginning of concurrent releases for Amazon’s EC2 cloud.

• VMware angles Spring as premier Java development tool

  Oracle may own the Java trademark, but VMware is touting its own Spring framework as the best programming model for enterprise Java developers.

• Get support for open source software

  One of the most persistent myths surrounding Linux and other open source software is that there's no easy way to get good support. Just this week, for instance, we saw this claim used in Microsoft's anti-OpenOffice.org video, obviously with the hope of striking fear into business users' hearts.

• OpenOffice.org breaks away from Oracle with new foundation

  Most of the volunteers and vendors behind OpenOffice.org have decided to create a new foundation that will be independent from Oracle and speed up improvements to the code in the open source alternative to Microsoft Office.

• Linux roundup: Fedora 14 gets MeeGo, Madriva is reborn

  There's never a dull moment in the land of Linux, and recent weeks have been no exception. Since no outlet can hope to give full coverage to every development that occurs, here's a roundup of some of the key events.

• Fedora 14 tests desktop virtualization

  The newly released version of the Fedora Linux-based operating system will be the first to incorporate desktop virtualization capabilities, the Fedora Foundation announced on Tuesday.

• Wall Street Beat: Red Hat, Tibco and Apple lead tech charge

  Red Hat, Tibco and Apple helped buoy technology investor confidence this week even as economic concerns caused volatility in the markets.

• Red Hat tops list of hottest IT security certifications

  Interest in IT security certifications is booming, as more U.S. companies tighten up the protection surrounding their critical network infrastructure and as a growing number of employees view security expertise as recession proof.

• Red Hat board gets military leadership

  The managing board of enterprise open-source software company Red Hat has elected a retired U.S. Army officer, General Henry Hugh Shelton, to serve as chairman, the company announced Monday. Shelton takes the place of Matthew Szulik, who was the former CEO of Red Hat.

• Rumored SAP-Red Hat merger seen as a long shot

  Rumors swirled once again this week regarding a possible takeover of Red Hat, this time by SAP, but a number of industry observers said Thursday that the prospect is unlikely at best.

• Red Hat offers its cloud APIs as industry standard

  As the industry call for cloud interoperability grows more fervent, open-source enterprise software company Red Hat has submitted its cloud platform, Deltacloud, to the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) as a potential standard for cloud interoperability, the company said Wednesday.

• Amazon and IBM are the 'cloud champions,' report says

  Amazon and IBM are the "cloud champions" according to a new report, but Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Red Hat and VMware are also among the list of heavyweights in the emerging cloud computing field.

• Court patent ruling leaves software patents intact

  The U.S. Supreme Court has ducked the question of whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) should continue to issue software patents in a ruling Monday striking down a business-method patent.

• Red Hat CEO: VMware our biggest competitor

  When it comes to enterprise open source software vendor Red Hat, one might assume its biggest competitors to be Oracle, Novell, Microsoft, or even IBM.

• Red Hat overhauls JBoss portal interface

  Red Hat has released version 5.0 of its portal software, the JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, the company announced Thursday at its Red Hat Summit in Boston.