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.

Version 1.0.0 of the Monitorix monitoring program has just been released. It now shows fan speeds, and CPU, motherboard and hard disk temperatures among other system data.

The International Standardization Organization, ISO, has announced that Microsoft's Office-Open-XML format (OOXML) has failed in preliminary voting.

Version 1.5.0 of the free virtual machine Virtualbox has just been released.