The Open Office project has again postponed the release date for the next version of its office software package.

The Linux company Red Hat has acquired system integrators Amentra and is now seeking to strengthen its Jboss business unit.

Users can now buy Parallels virtualization software and a package with multimedia codecs by Fluendo from Linspire’s Click'n'Run Warehouse (CNR).

The free Debian Linux distribution is looking for Security staff for its "testing" branch.

Three developers have applied for the post of Debian Project Leader (DPL). The current project leader, Sam Hocevar, is not campaigning for re-election.

Sun Microsystems and Microsoft have opened an interoperability center at the Microsoft campus in Redmond.

The BSD variant, FreeBSD, has just updated to version 7.0. According to announcements on the project’s website, performance and exploitation of multiple processor architectures have been greatly improved.