Despite tons of reports to the contrary, Dell has not abandoned Ubuntu. Network World.

Open Source for America is celebrating a year of pushing the feds toward open source adoption. Network World.

Software as a Service may be speeding up adoption of open source software. Network World.

The partnership Adobe has, ahem, forged with SourceForge, has interesting implications. Network World. I also co-hosted a podcast on Alan Schimel’s OS blog on Network World, in which we interviewed SugarCMR’s CEO about the Open Core debate.

Open source business models are becoming more attractive. Network World.

The U.K. government is looking for ideas on how to save money, and among the suggestions it’s considering is to drop Microsoft products in favor of Linux and other open-source options. Network World.

IBM and the European Union are partnering on open source projects. Network World.

Many companies distributing open source software don’t even know it; that’s a problem. Network World.

Mozilla’s Firefox just became the official default browser of IBM’s 400,000 employees worldwide. Network World.

I had the pleasure of guesting on Alan Schimel’s Network World podcast about open source, discussing questions of security that arose after a report suggested OSS had more vulnerabilities than proprietary software.