San Francisco, CA and Sydney, NSW, Australia -- Today Atlassian, makers of JIRA, FishEye and other software development collaboration tools, announced it has acquired Bitbucket.org. With over 60,000 accounts, Bitbucket is the premier hosted code collaboration provider for the Mercurial distributed version control system (DVCS).

Yesterday Julie Bort wrote in the NetworkWorld site an interesting post called “Cisco doesn’t contribute nearly enough to open source”, where she contends that “”[despite its] .. proclaims it responsible for a half percent of the contributions to the Linux kernel (0.5%). In reality, Cisco has been a near non-entity as an open source contributor”.

Linux has been enterprise-ready for years. Finally, the enterprises are ready for it. And we have Google to thank for it.

Ever since Oracle got its anti-open source hands on MySQL via the Sun acquisition, many in the open source community have been hoping for a new champion to fill the perceived void that Oracle "selling" MySQL presents.

If the idea of using Linux in your business is one that makes you nervous, chances are you've fallen prey to one or more of the many myths out there that are frequently disseminated by competing vendors such as Microsoft.

Novell is getting smaller and smaller while Red Hat expands, partly at Novell's expense

In a tight economy, it's more important than ever to make sure every dollar spent is providing maximum return. And for a growing number of small businesses, this means reexamining plans for upgrading existing servers and workstations.

Canonical's most famous project is Ubuntu.  But Launchpad, another of the company's major endeavors, has been around just as long - even though many casual Ubuntu users may not be aware of its existence.  Here's a look at the value Launchpad offers, and where it fits into Canonical's present and future.