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Aternity, a next-generation end-user experience management platform for enterprise IT, Tuesday joined the Red Hat ISV Partner Program as a Red Hat Ready Partner receiving access to the tools and resources necessary to develop and test Aternity's "frontline performance intelligence platform" on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Cisco Systems plans to acquire a 1.6 percent equity stake in virtualization software player VMware, mirroring a step Intel took earlier this month.

The pace of change in the open source software business is likely to accelerate in 2007 as developers climb up the software stack from the operating system and databases to applications.

Open source software is a given in most enterprise data centers, so it's not surprising to see the ranks of open source companies and projects swell. It's not just Linux anymore - community-developed software is offering alternatives for everything from databases to application servers to network management to disaster preparedness. How do you know which open source approach is right for you? We've pulled out a few start-ups that you might not be familiar with, but we think should be on your radar.

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?"

MySQL has secured US$18.5 million in its latest round of venture capital funding, the open-source database vendor announced Monday. The company plans to spend the money on new product development and expanding its sales and marketing operations. The investors include the venture capital arms of Intel and enterprise applications vendor SAP.

Black Duck Software is to make version 3.0 of its multiuser enterprise protexIP/development software compliance management suite generally available Tuesday. The startup is also unveiling a single-user release of the software targeting small businesses the same day, according to a company release.

Linux vendor TurboLinux Inc. Wednesday announced the acquisition of a US$30 million third round of funding.

Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of Intel Corp., has invested an undisclosed amount into MontaVista Software. MontaVista develops the Hard Hat Linux operating system.