rPath, a software appliance distribution and management company founded by former Red Hat executives, announced last week that it had secured $9.1m during its Series B funding round (press release). The round was led by General Catalyst, North Bridge Venture Partners, and Wakefield Group. This follows a Series A funding round of $6.4m in January [...]

iRadeon releases open source live help application…Sun Microsystems commits to open source cryptography code contributions…Palamida integrates software code audit functionality into Borland Gauntlet…and more…

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Micrososft releases OpenDocument translator tool…Mozilla opens an office in China…Novell reaches 1 million downloads of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10…and more…

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William Hurley (“whurley”), the CTO of Qlusters, and the person behind the company’s release of the open source OpenQRM systems management software in Janaury 2005, has left the company. He has been removed from the SourceForge project site for openQRM, but the Qlusters management team page still lists “whurley” as an employee. No further details [...]

Blackboard pledges patents to open source…Pentaho releases a new version of its data integration software…Microsoft and Novell begin to staff up their interoperability lab…and more…

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