CNET - Microsoft, one of the biggest rivals to open-source programming, has begun funding the Apache Software Foundation, one of open-source software's biggest supporters.

PC World - Microsoft on Friday expanded its support for the open-source community by donating cash to the Apache Software Foundation.

NewsFactor - Zimbra is offering an office productivity suite. The Yahoo-owned provider of open-source messaging and collaboration tools announced Thursday a free beta of Yahoo Zimbra Desktop, which offers a centralized location for managing e-mail even when a user is not connected to the Internet, plus a tool for creating documents and spreadsheets.

InfoWorld - The Open Web Foundation, a non-profit organization intended to help create an "Open Web," was announced Thursday at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Portland, Ore.

PC Magazine - The Debian project's maintainer Luk Claes said July 21 he will freeze "testing" the "Lenny" tree "next week" as he prepares for the stable release of Debian Linux in September.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - The data warehouse appliance maker's software is typically used with Ingres' open source database, but could be easily be optimized for Microsoft's SQL Server.

PC World - One year after announcing its homegrown mobile Linux project, Intel prepares to hand Moblin over to the open source community.

PC World - A new open source project is develoing a new micro-kernel database based on MySQL, targeted at large-scale Web applications.

Investor's Business Daily - Open-source software, such as Linux, often claims enterprise-class capabilities, but it isn't adopting enterprise-class security standards, according to a study by security tools supplier Fortify Software. Fortify says the free software often comes with hidden costs because businesses end up having to fix unexpected security problems. The security concerns come amid increased adoption of open-source programs, with more than half of CIOs saying their enterprises run such software.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - Any release of Enterprise Linux is given a seven-year lifecycle of support, but the level of support drops back in the fifth year, then is reduced further in the sixth and seventh years.

InfoWorld - Intel is readying a second release of the Moblin open-source platform for mobile computing, with plans set for an alpha-level version in a few weeks, an Intel official said at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Ore. on Wednesday.

InfoWorld - Ubuntu Linux Founder Mark Shuttleworth urged development of a Linux desktop to rival what Apple has done in this space and aired a vision of software changing the world.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - Read this chapter of A Practical Guide To Ubuntu Linux and bring yourself up to speed on the open source operating system's desktop and its root privileges, and learn how to work with the command line and control windows.

InfoWorld - Sun is announcing on Wednesday availability of Sun Web Stack, which puts the company???s own twist on the popular open-source LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Perl/Python or PHP) stack.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - While open source mobile browsers will gain popularity, ABI Research says offerings from companies like Opera can still garner significant revenue.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - This is the sixth lawsuit the Software Freedom Law Center has filed on behalf of BusyBox seeking to uphold open source software principles.

PC World - Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Mobile Internet Device editions of Linux are gearing up to compete with Windows on mini-PC devices this year.

InfoWorld - Research and development efficiency, and not competitive concerns about the Google Android or Linux Mobile (LiMo) initiatives, was a chief driver in the decision to make the Symbian mobile platform open source, a Symbian official said Monday afternoon.

InfoWorld - Linux is set to make a major impact in the mobile computing realm, the executive director of the Linux Foundation stressed at a conference Monday morning.