VMware, a subsidiary of EMC which focuses on virtualization solutions, has gotten off to a flying start on the New York Stock Exchange.

The US-based Citrix corporation has just acquired XenSource, a virtualization solutions provider for US$ 500m.

US corp. XenSource announces version 4 of its XenEnterprise virtualization software for Monday.

SWsoft, which produces the Virtuozzo virtualization software among other things, reports a 127 percent increase in turnover for the first 6 months of 2007 compared to the previous year's figures.

Database manufactuer Oracle has released various software projects under the GPL, including ports of Yast and the Btrfs filesystem.

Consolidating 3900 servers on 30 Linux mainframes based on IBM's own Z Series has helped IBM to cut its power bill considerably. Power consumption has dropped by up to 80 percent.