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There's been much uncertainty surrounding OpenOffice.org ever since Oracle decided back in June to donate the open source office productivity project to the Apache Software Foundation.

The CEO of Yahoo-backed venture Hortonworks says that anybody who uses Apache's Hadoop distribution "is our partner"

FuseSource has released a new developer environment for Apache's open source messaging software

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge and the Apache Software Foundation -- siding with Microsoft in a long-running legal battle -- have joined forces in urging the United States Supreme Court to make it easier for juries to invalidate software patents.

The Apache Software Foundation has accepted Object-Oriented Data Technology as a top-level project

Oracle has asked the Apache Software Foundation to reconsider its decision to quit the Java SE/EE Executive Committee, and is also acknowledging the ASF's importance to Java's future.

Rumors of the death of Google Wave are perhaps somewhat exaggerated. Google may have pulled the plug on the short-lived Google Wave, but the concept lives on in an open source project being embraced by the Apache Software Foundation.

For the first time, the open source organization is announcing six top-level efforts

Yahoo is debuted on Monday an open source version of its Traffic Server software, which serves as a high-performance application server for cloud computing services. Code for Traffic Server is available as an Incubator project at the Apache Software Foundation.

The Apache Software Foundation has retired HiveMind, an Inversion of Control framework, due to inactivity.

Microsoft is contributing code to an Apache open-source SOA project, continuing the company's softening of its attitude toward open-source software and the community that supports it.