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Australia's open source community leaders have written an open letter to Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard calling for consideration of free and open source software in the implementation of the Digital Education Revolution for the National Secondary School Computer Fund.

Citrix Systems, EMC's VMware unit, Microsoft, Symantec, and other big dogs have shelled out more than US$2 billion on acquisitions related todesktop virtualization in less than two years. But now that they've got the technology, it's not at all clear that customers will buy it.

Some industry watchers may still question why Symantec moved to acquire storage software maker Veritas for US$10.2 billion in 2004, but the fruits of the companies' combined labors are already proving the deal as a winner, according to executives with the massive security firm.

Professional video editing software may cost thousands of dollars but one open source project, Jahshaka, is aiming to change the game by providing all the features in a real time, networked environment. Jahshaka is a video and film compositing, editing and special effects system that uses hardware rendering to give users real time interactivity. Computerworld spoke with the project's founder, Jah Shaka, about the little application that could change the content creation game for good.

Virtualization, mobility and open source are among the most promising technologies for enabling companies to become more agile, but these network and IT advances still have a lot of maturing to do, according to analysts at an IT conference in Boston last week.

With its acquisition of JBoss, Red Hat hopes its third try scaling up the open-source software stack proves to be the charm.

Odds are that Congress will move this fall on a bill to shut down gambling on the Internet--an increasingly popular online pastime whose legality is already murky, at best.