Some of the top open source stories of 2007

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 Information Week runs them down.

  • WSO2, Oxygen for web services.
  • Medsphere Vs. Shreeve: Open source gone awry.
  • Apache Tomcat takes the lead.
  • Spring takes hold.
  • Acacia subsidiary sues Linux distributor.
  • Citrix (NSDQ: CTXS) buys XenSource for $500 million.
  • Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) negotiates Linux vendor deals.
  • GPLv3 comes out.
  • SCO rebuffed in claims its intellectual property was given to Linux.
  • Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) claims Linux infringes its patents.

There has been a great deal of wheeling and dealing going on in this sector with some big money exchanging hands, but it is the involvement of the largest commercial software company in the world, Microsoft, that has really set the media wires alight. And rightly so.

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