Sun Microsystems has just announced ist new Sun Fire X4150 and X4450 64 bit servers based on Intel's Xeon quad core CPU.

Novell's business Linux, Suse Linux Enterprise Server, will include an integrated Virtual Machine Interface (VMI) in future.

Sun Microsystems is acquiring a majority shareholding in Cluster File Systems and thus the rights to the Lustre cluster filesystem.

Microsoft and Novell have announced the opening of an Open Interoperability Lab within the scope of cooperation between the two companies.

The Pioneer Linux Explorer Server is targeted at newcomers. The commercial distribution is available free of charge for non-commercial use.

The latest version of Samba, 3.0.26, removes a moderately critical vulnerability that only occurs in combination with Microsoft's Active Directory Service.

No less than five vulnerabilities were eradicated by the release of a new version of the Apache Web server.

HP is offering a rack server and a blade server with Intel's new quad-core processor.

The Xeon 7300er processor family is Intel's first quad-core processor for multiple processor servers. The energy efficiency of the new processors differs depending on the speed with 2.93 GHz requiring 130 Watts compared to 50 Watts for a 1.86 GHz version.

Red Hat Linux has just released JBoss ESB 4.2, a community variant of its JBoss middleware.