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Open source is making its way into more and more enterprises with cheap, robust alternatives to solutions offered by proprietary software vendors. Read this article to learn about eight open-source companies worth watching in the areas of Web search, server virtualization, data integration, collaboration software and e-mail.

A California fire investigator reversed an earlier finding and said Thursday that a cell phone was not the cause of a fire that critically burned a man and damaged the man's apartment.

Centeris CEO Barry Crist can rattle off a litany of reasons for why you should give his company's management software a whirl. But perhaps his most illustrative selling point is this: "What if your Linux administrator goes on vacation?"

Startup Centeris plans to officially release version 1.0 of its Likewise Management Suite software this week. The company emerged from stealth mode in October with a public beta of Likewise that manages Linux servers in a Microsoft Windows network.

Centeris emerged from stealth mode to release the public beta version of its Likewise 1.0 software for managing Linux servers in a Microsoft Windows network Wednesday. The startup also announced it had raised over US$5 million in venture capital funding.

Making open source a more viable tool for businesses is the focus of a several start-ups that have come on the scene recently.