According to ABI Research, some form of Linux will power middle to high-end mobile devices by 2013.
The research firm indicated several factors behind their conclusion citing growing momentum behind the Linux Mobile Foundation (LiMo), Google’s Android project, and Nokia’s tablet-based Maemo OS and acquisition of Trolltech.

In a statement released Monday, ABI vice president Stuart Carlaw said:

Linux OS solutions will be far more cost-effective than incumbent solutions, even when silicon requirements are taken into account, given that a fuller application layer will be included in the standard package and that the burden of customization falls mostly on the independent software vendor.

SugarCRM and British Telcom announce a reseller agreement to distribute the SugarCRM Professional and Enterprise editions to British Telcom’s 1.2 million business subscribers.

Although this isn’t a 1-to-1 with British Telcom’s customer deployments, it does open a huge window of opportunity for SugarCRM both in terms of revenue and adoption.

This news signals a move from the Siebel offering that British Telcom formally provided.

Luminotes is a hosted solution that provides a personal wiki-online notebook solution all in one. Created by Dan Helfman as a way to track notes and link them together, it is now available in a free online version (paid upgrade versions available too) as well as the source code is freely downloadable to run on your own server and is released under the GPL.

If an open source web-based notebook is something you’ve been looking for then perhaps Luminotes might be worth a look.

php|architect has announced the upcoming availability of their “Guide to Programming with Magento” book.

The book will be available in PDF format May 15, 2008 and in print May 31, 2008. Currently they are running a 15% off pre-sale, sale.

Congrats to Drupal for winning the Cnet 2008 webware 100 award in the publishing category.

The webware awards recognize the best web 2.0 sites, services and applications.

The openSUSE team announced today the first beta release of openSUSE 11.0:

There are many exciting enhancements and features in the new release. Among these is the incredibly fast package management (libzypp), KDE 3.5.9 and 4.0.3, GNOME 2.22.1, a beautiful new installer, installable live CDs and much more.

Drupal creator and project lead Dries Buytaert was named as a 2008 top 30-and-under innovator by Businessweek Magazine.

The annual elections for the Debian project have resulted in Steve McIntyre as the new project leader. McIntyre has been a Debian developer for 12 years now and was second runner up in the previous two year elections.

ITWire has two good stories covering this in more depth:

Steve McIntyre elected Debian leader

New Debian leader aims for better communication

Zmanda has made the slides from Thursday’s keynote available covering the topic of protecting live MySQL databases at the MySQL user conference.