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O’Reilly media founder Tim O’Reilly is “the most powerful voice” in open source , followed by Linux chief architect Linus Torvalds, Google executive Chris Messina, ex-Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, and Gnome and Mono founder Miguel de Icaza, according to a new ranking of influential open source personalities.

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Linus Torvalds named most influential open source blogger

Open source collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange has integrated VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and social networking sites in the latest version of its email server and client.

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Open-Xchange email gains integration with VoIP

Microsoft at its Mix10 conference on Monday will introduce a framework enabling Web analytics to be performed for Siliverlight rich media applications. The open source Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework will debut in a beta form at the conference in Las Vegas, said Michael Scherotter, Microsoft media experience evangelist. The framework, which will be released on the company’s CodePlex site for open source projects, will work with third-party analytics services from companies such as Preemptive Solutions.

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Sun’s chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, has left the company following its acquisition by Oracle, the executive announced in his blog Tuesday. “Today is my last day of employment at Sun (well, it became Oracle on March 1st in the UK but you know what I mean),” Phipps wrote. “I am a few months short of my 10th anniversary there (I joined at JavaOne in 2000) and my 5th anniversary as Chief Open Source Officer.”

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Sun’s open source chief leaves following Oracle merger

A new industry group is trying to apply open-source principles to the design and construction of data centers, which it says could accelerate the use of new technologies and increase competition in the industry. The Open Source Data Center Initiative, announced this week, will act as a repository and test bed for mechanical and engineering advances in data-center design, which it hopes will be submitted by small engineering firms, graduate students doing research with federal grant money, and others.

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Group seeks to open source data-center design

Amazon.com has agreed to pay Microsoft an undisclosed sum as part of a patent cross-licensing deal between the companies.

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Microsoft, Amazon strike patent licensing deal

The latest version of OpenOffice fixes several vulnerabilities that could cause a computer to become compromised by a remote attacker. OpenOffice.org has issued version 3.2, which adds a lengthy list of new features and improves the suite’s overall performance while also fixing six vulnerabilities .

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OpenOffice 3.2 fixes vulnerabilities, adds features

Beehive, an Apache Software Foundation open source project providing a Java programming  model, has been retired due to inactivity, the foundation said on Wednesday. Based on the former BEA Weblogic Workshop development tool runtime, Beehive was built on J2EE and the Struts Java Web framework; it used annotations to reduce coding. [ InfoWorld’s Paul Krill reported on Oracle’s BEA roadmap for BEA, which classified Beehive as being in maintenance mode .

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Apache Beehive project retired

Ksplice Tuesday officially launched its no-reboot patching service for Linux servers. The Cambridge, Mass., startup has about 35 customers and several thousand servers using its paid Uptrack service, in which security and maintenance patches are automatically applied to Linux servers with minimal delay and no downtime, according to Chief Operating Officer Waseem Daher.

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Ksplice debuts zero downtime service for Linux