Among the prominent new appointees to the open source foundation from Redmond are Jim Jagielski of VMware and Apache fame. Promoted from within Microsoft are two other board members.

In Munich, Wednesday, March 10, Oracle announced its upcoming strategy for the Sun takeover: the new couple will now sell complete packages and, next to Oracle's database, further develop Solaris along with Sun's SPARC and Flashfire server technologies.

The Norwegian company has released the slimline browser Opera version Mini 5 for Android systems.

The Linux Foundation is again beating its marketing drum by opening its own store on linux.com. One entry point is a new t-shirt design contest.

The GNOME Developer Kit is a Linux distro based on Foresight Linux. Its new release shows a somewhat reduced collection of software for GNOME developers.

International free software organizations have declared the last Wednesday in March to be Document Freedom Day (DFD). Activities and information events will take place all over the world, including Canada, United Kingdom and the United States.

The Swiss canton Zug has put a collaboration solution called iZug under GPL licensing.

The new version of OpenSSH serves developers as a feature and bugfix release.