Positioning itself as a start-up, eZuce has launched a software-based, open source unified communications solution targeting enterprises with 200 to 10,000 users. Industry veterans and creators of SIPfoundry, Dr. Martin Steinmann and Jerry Stabile, are company co-founders.

As the industry call for cloud interoperability grows more fervent, open source enterprise software company Red Hat has submitted its cloud platform, Deltacloud, to the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) as a potential standard for cloud interoperability, the company said Wednesday.

The latest version of the open source system also includes new features for cloud computing

The Vyatta open source network operating system has been certified for IPv6, which is likely to become a key capability as the number of Internet addresses available under the current version of IP diminishes.

Hosted version of the open source CMS moves to public beta stage

Drupal Gardens, the planned cloud version of the open source Drupal content management system, went into a public beta stage, thus making it widely available for tryouts, said Drupal founder Dries Buytaert.

The technology previously had been available through a controlled, private beta program, said Buytaert, founder and CTO of Acquia, in an interview at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland.

Enterprises can use the free appliance to try out cloud application deployments on Amazon's EC2.

Canonical is offering enterprises a chance to try cloud computing via a virtual appliance that bundles Ubuntu Linux with the IBM DB2 Express-C database running on the Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) public cloud platform.

The free appliance, which features Ubuntu Server Edition 10.04, also can be deployed in private cloud configurations.

The technology integration should make it easier to build Symbian apps via Nitobi PhoneGap framework

Smartphone platform provider Symbian Foundation is joining forces with mobile framework builder Nitobi in an effort to simplify application development for Symbian devices.

Data center and cloud infrastructure service provider Rackspace is expected to announce Monday the release of a new open-source offering that will allow users to build and launch their own internal and hosted clouds.

IBM and the European Union are partnering on two projects that, in the end, aim to make government run more smoothly and businesses able to collaborate on web-based services.

Both will take advantage of and contribute to the open source community.

The Linux Foundation project combines the Maemo and Moblin platforms and features touch capabilities

MeeGo, a Linux Foundation effort to provide a mobile version of Linux, moves to "Day 1" of the MeeGo Handset User Experience project, with developers able to access handset baseline source code and leverage touch capabilities, MeeGo representatives said.

xTuple and ADempiere, two open source ERP suites, top the ranking of the most active projects on SourceForge

Open source ERP (enterprise resource planning) software may still represent a small chunk of the overall market, but as a concept it has clearly gained a critical mass of adherents.