VMware's SpringSource division has announced the contribution of its dm Server OSGi-based technology to the Eclipse Foundation to form Project Virgo, an initiative to deliver a module-based Java application server. 
Alfresco has its eye on the clouds as it introduces multi-tenancy and cloud deployment options in the latest Enterprise release of its open source content management system...
Microsoft still has a stranglehold on the desktop and servers for small business. While wheels are in motion for the former, the answer to the latter may already be here.
When IBM announced its Linux-only Enterprise Linux Server variants of the System z mainframe two weeks ago, what the company did not say is that software partner Novell had cooked up software bundles specifically for these boxes.
Manually extracting relevant information from repeated incantations of SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS while trying to figure out what InnoDB is doing is not only error prone, it's just plain hard to do.  
Linux and open source middleware JBoss has made its mark in the enterprise , and it is just a matter of time before open source becomes mainstream in other functional parts of the IT infrastructure as well.