A UC Davis graduate student has created short, colorful movies that show the development of open source software. With dancing points of light, rings of color and a soundtrack, the Code_swarm animations show how software such as the Python scripting language and the Apache Web server have developed from the contributions of different programmers.

HP today announced a software governance initiative to help companies address the legal, financial and security risks faced when adopting free and open source software (FOSS).

Sun Microsystems Growth Strategy Accelerates With New Position in $15 Billion Database Market As Sun Acquires MySQL, Developer of the World's Most Popular Open Source Database.

Microsoft and Xandros signed agreement, which will make patent protected Windows operating system work better with open source software. This is a five year, marketing, technology and patent deal.

Dell unveils it new PCs preloaded with Ubuntu Linux operating system. Customers have three choices while buying Dell's new computers: they can take a PC with no operating system installed, a PC with Windows OS, and a PC preloaded with Ubuntu Linux.

Microsoft announced the release of an open source translator between Chinese Unified Office Format Ecma Open XML File Formats. Microsoft Office users can download the translator as its add-ins for free.

Microsoft calculates its patent violation by open sources software and is going to take measures against it. Microsoft is already collecting payments and gaining access to patent portfolios from the companies that use open source operating system Linux. In the list of these companies are Novell, Samsung, Fuji Xerox.