Roberto writes that Sun has agreed to include an Italian dictionary and thesaurus (from the Italian Native-Lang Project team) in the official OpenOffice.org distro. Congrats to Roberto & team!

Matt points to an interesting article about using an open business model.

A NetworkWorld article quotes Google’s GM of Enterprise Business as saying:

Matt Asay has some good advice for folks asking him for career advice: “Work for an open source company.”

Red Herring’s Falguni Bhuta predicts “More (Open Source) momentum in developing countries“:

Search term: “mysql WASCE”

Based on the number of hits this blog is getting with the search term “Geronimo vs. WAS CE”, it appears that there is some confusion about the similarities and differences between Apache Geronimo and IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE).

Sys-Con is quoting Marc Fleury, JBoss founder & CEO and now SVP & GM of JBoss Division at Red Hat, as having said:

Zack, the three examples you give appear to me as signs that OSS is under attack by vendors who don’t gork the value of an open community & the customer value delivered. Yep, even the MSFT deal with Zend.

TheServerSide has a thread announcing that the Apache Geronimo team has released a performance profile for Geronimo 1.1.1.

Alex Fletcher, an analyst from Entiva Group is asking why IBM doesn’t have more blogs devoted to OSS projects that IBMers participates in. He points to the easily findable blogs from Sun employees who work on NetBeans & GlassFish as examples for what he’d like to see from IBM.

There’s a lot of confusion about what Sun actually intends to do when they use the term “open source java”.

Yesterday, IBM announced that it now offers support services for Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Geronimo open source application server software.