IBM has published plans for its own network service for IT infrastructures under the "Blue Cloud" heading.

Oracle has just released the first, major JRuby application, thus demonstrating the viability of the Java port of the Ruby scripting language.

Linux distributor Red Hat has released the sixth updated for version 4 of its discontinued Enterprise Linux product.

The Initiative Forum Open Language Tools (FOLT), which develops software for translators has published initial results.

The hot topic of virtualization has developed into a must have for any vendor’s portfolio: following Oracle, Sun has now announced its own virtualization and management platform titled xVM.

Microsoft’s Network Access Protection Plattform (NAP) security function will be available for Linux and the Mac operating system via third party products.

Version 2.0 of the Ubuntu Customization Kit (UCK) has just been released. The kit gives useres the ability to create customized Ubuntu Live CDs.

At Oracle’s own Open World fair in San Francisco, Oracle recently presented a virtualization software titled Oracle VM, based on the free Xen virtualization solution.

The official test phase for VMware Server 2 by virtualization specialists VMware has now started. The final version is due for release in 2008 and will be free of charge.

Developers are currently working on a Debian variant for the lightweight Linux Eee notebook by Asus.