Market research firm Gartner discovered that most of the almost 300 organizations it surveyed employed Open Source software in one way or another, but that a general license enforcement policy was missing.

Austrian company Linbit has announced that it is merging its DRBD+ commercial high availability (HA) software with the open source version DRBD to make a free software solution.

The Openmoko project, developers of an open source mobile phone platform, has recently pulled its download site offline due to a patent dispute.

Open source developer Tobias Oetiker, in his presentation at the USENIX LISA conference in San Diego, described how he could help one thousand Windows users at Swisscom.com speed up their computers.

Israeli security firm Yoggie has released its Linux-based USB Stick Firewall Gatekeeper product in an Open Source version. The open firewall products also include a developer kit.

The virtualization specialist adopted the know-how for the product through its acquisition of Trango Virtual Processors

Sun Microsystems has added three new members to its Storage 7000 family that include Open Source software.