The Linux Foundation recently announced that the Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.

New organization will oversee interoperability and standards for the popular open source database.

Key features of new Oracle Kernel release include: Btrfs filesystem, improvements in performance, scalability, virtualization and others.

Oracle announces it has submitted a proposal to the Eclipse Foundation to create a Hudson project in Eclipse and contribute the Hudson core code to that project.

Oracle announced its intentions to move OpenOffice.org to a community-based open source project and to no longer offer a commercial version of Open Office.

Debian receives two out of the seven Linux New Media awards at CeBIT 2011.

Oracle releases their virtualization product, VirtualBox 4.0, which is available for both enterprise and home use.