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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

President Barack Obama’s 2011 budget proposal, released last week, would flatten federal IT spending and require federal agencies to consolidate IT operations.

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Obama’s 2011 budget would choke IT spending, eliminate data centers

Oracle’s acquisition of Sun has hit some European roadblocks, but if it goes through customers will have to prepare to negotiate with a new IT behemoth. With Sun on board, Oracle will have the software and hardware it needs to compete against more well-rounded companies such as IBM, and could vault up to the top of the open source industry, according to Gartner.

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If Oracle and Sun merge, customer negotiations could get tricky

I used to think Ubuntu was destined to lead Linux into the mainstream, but now it’s looking much more like Google — not Canonical — will be the first Linux vendor to truly challenge Microsoft.

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Google holds the future of Linux

Microsoft has yanked a tool it touted as a way for netbook owners to install Windows 7 without a DVD drive after a prominent blogger accused the company of using open-source code without acknowledging where it originated. The free utility, WUDT (Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool), has been pulled from Microsoft’s site, as has the page of instructions on how it was to be used.

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Microsoft yanks Windows 7 tool over open-source code swipe

The European Commission has issued its formal “statement of objections” over Oracle’s planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems , Sun said in a regulatory filing Monday.

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Update: EU issues objections to Oracle’s Sun acquisition

Microsoft plans to acquire technology that has enabled Microsoft’s TFS (Team Foundation Server) software to be an ALM (application lifecycle management) server for different software development platforms.

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Microsoft buys bridge between Java and .Net developers

Onlookers say that Google is in charge of Android development, despite pitching the software as a community project. But experts say that could be the only way Google can ensure that the software is actually released

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Who’s in charge of Android development: Google or developers?

Canonical made available on Thursday the Release Candidate of its latest Linux-based operating system, Ubuntu 9.10, on the same day Microsoft launched the long-awaited Windows 7 .

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Canonical takes on Windows 7 with latest Ubuntu release candidate