The RailsBridge Open Workshop project, which teaches programmers and non-programmers how to develop web applications using the Ruby on Rails framework, announces eight free workshops in 2011.

"The decision to be open to Qt is in no way a criticism of GNOME. It’s a celebration of free software’s diversity and complexity," says Ubuntu founder, Mark Shuttleworth in his blog.

Jaspersoft 4, a commercial open source Business Intelligence Suite designed for web applications, is now available.

In this video interview, Canonical Chairman and Ubuntu Founder, Mark Shuttleworth discusses Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, and the inclusion of both OpenStack and Eucalyptus in Ubuntu 11.04, Natty Narwhal release, with Dell's cloud computing evangelist, Barton George.

Codezero developers of a baremetal multitasking executive capable of virtualizing Android and Linux on multicore ARM processors announced the released it's latest version, 0.4 of the embedded hypervisor toolkit of the same name.

Google donates the source code and IP of WindowBuilder and CodePro Profiler to the open source community via the Eclipse Foundation.

Google announced that Chrome is ready for business and the wait to deploy Chrome and Google Apps for Business is over.

Earlier this week, Google released Crankshaft, a new compilation infrastructure for V8, Chrome's JavaScript engine.