Michael "Monty" Widenius, long associated with MySQL, has decided to leave Sun Microsystems. His plan is to pursue open source software development again as an independent agent, and he also sees a future in gastronomy that should benefit all database developers.

Gnome is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering free desktop environment of Linux and Linux-like systems that is especially focused on offering easy access.

Blender is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering 3-Dimensional Software Creation for professionals.

Debian is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering a free Linux operating system Java-written platform for knowledge management.

KDE is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering the graphical work environment and many applications for Linux users.

i-doit is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering a tool for project documentation conformant to ITIL.

AdempiereERP is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering an enterprise ressource planning for the German market.

GOsa² is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering a central management of software. Although not known to many, they help out in large projects already, for example in the LiMux project in the City of Munich, Germany.