The update Debian 4.0 alias Etch to 4.03r sees the free project mainly add security patches and remove the Adobe Flash plugin from the official repository.
Sun Microsystems has been on another spending spree: Sun’s latest acquisition is said to be Innotek, the manufacturer of the Virtualbox Open Source virtualization solution.
The EU Commission is looking to investigate whether Microsoft illegally attempted to influence the standardization process for its own OOXML document format.
Thanks to an agreement with the Ubuntu company, Canonical, Parallels can now distribute its commercial virtualization product, Parallels Workstation, via the Ubuntu package management system.
Microsoft has announced it wants to simplify access to technical documentation for older Office formats, and initiate an open-source project to replicate the binary formats in Open XML.