As Ubuntu 10.04 nears its April 29 launch date, Canonical’s Linux distribution finally seems to be attracting key software partners. That’s good news for Canonical and aspiring Ubuntu channel partners. But is Ubuntu 10.04 really ready to compete with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux?

Red Hat has announced that it is expanding its cloud services offering. Together with Amazon, Red Hat's first Premier Certified Cloud Provider, the company is allowing users to extend their RHEL subscriptions into the cloud using Amazon Web Services

Rasmus Lerdorf will now lead development on the programming interface for start-up WePay

Network software giant Novell has claimed it is the first Linux vendor to achieve 5,000 certified ISV applications and has increased its Linux market share against Red Hat, according to IDC.

When OOoFf arrived, bringing together two champions of the open source software movement in one box, it was pretty clear that it was never going to work.

Symantec is ramping up its encryption software portfolio with the acquisitions of PGP and GuardianEdge for $300 million and $70 million, respectively.

Open-Xchange, the open source Microsoft Exchange competitor and collaboration platform that’s been turning heads in the hosted application market, has announced a simplified SaaS partner pricing structure that comes in two flavors: guaranteed revenue and flat rate. Here’s the scoop.

Late last week, it was noted that the beta release of Red Hat Linux Enterprise 6 would no longer include support for the Xen hypervisor. Instead, Red Hat is throwing all of its virtualization efforts on KVM moving forward. This raised a few eyebrows in the virtualization community, and led some pundits to question the future of Xen without Red Hat.