Sun will discontinue production of Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) by the end of October. A replacement is being planned.

A new survey by the Public Sector Forums in the U.K. on public financing of IT costs was based on a sample of 168 local authorities.

Virtualization provider VMware has purchased open source firm SpringSource for $420 million.

With Apache 2.2.13, developers have closed security holes in the popular webserver.

Samba Project developer Chris Hertel has clinched a contract with Microsoft to write protocol documentation.

BlazeBlogger is a command line tool that allows creating blogs and websites without server-side software. It is now available in version 0.9.0.

For the 10th time, this day is dedicated to those unsung heroes working in the background: System Administrators.

Emacs, the extensible editor of the GNU project, is available in version 23.1. The release adds countless modernizations to the traditional program, such as font anti-alising and support for D-Bus and zeroconf.