Actuate and Black Duck report on third quarter performance. Red Hat welcomes Microsoft to AMQP. Canonial launches Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition. How to pronounce my surname. And more.

Press releases
Actuate Reports Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results
Actuate

Black Duck Software Continues Phenomenal Growth in Q3 Black Duck

Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition enables mobile, flexible computing for a changing digital world Canonical

Microsoft Joins Working Group for Open Standards Messaging Software Microsoft

Zenoss Adds Industry Veteran Wayne Jackson to Board of Directors Zenoss

Zimbra Leverages the Cloud to Deliver the Industry’s Most Flexible Collaboration Platform to Educational Institutions Yahoo Zimbra

GroundWork Releases Network Management Suite 2.1 GroundWork Open Source

rPath Initiative Aims to Close the Application Deployment Gap rPath

Ingres Supports Open Source Initiative of European Union Ingres

Optaros, JasperSoft Announce Partnership Optaros

Nexaweb Adds Reusable Framework for Application Modernization to Flagship Enterprise Web Suite Nexaweb

News articles
How to get VC investment for your open source business Keith Ward, Linux.com

Shuttleworth: Ubuntu developer Canonical may need 3-5 more years of funding Chris Kanaracus, ComputerWorld

Safecode initiative fails to attract open source players heise online

EU: Updated guide on Open Source for SMEs Gijs Hillenius, OSOR.EU

Commission tailors GNU/Linux server specialised in blogs Gijs Hillenius, OSOR.EU

Divide and Conquer: Open Source and SaaS Take on Enterprise Software Joe Ruck, Enterprise Open Source Magazine

The LXF Analysis: Open source innovations M-Saunders, Linux Format

BMW seeking partners for open-source car software platform Nelson Ireson, MotorAuthority

Blogs
Ubuntu’s Shuttleworth: “I don’t think anyone can make money from the Linux desktop.” Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ComputerWorld

Estimating value of opensource JP Rangaswami, confused of calcutta

Welcome to AMQP, Microsoft Red Hat Enterprise MRG Team, Red Hat

Funambol on the Android Market (and the G1) Fabrizio Capobianco, Funambol

Facebook’s Scribe technology now open source Robert Johnson, Engineering @ Facebook

How to Tell If Your CEO Is Clueless Guy Kawasaki

The Customer’s Perspective Roy Agostino, Marketcetera

Jerry Maguire on the future of the free software industry Dave Neary, Neary Consulting

Audio/visual
Open Sources Podcast Episode 1 Open Sources
Dave Rosenberg and Matt Asay talk business models and VC funding on their new podcast. Contrary to what Matt seems to think I have no problem with him or his views on VC funding. It would be nice if he pronounced my surname correctly however. It’s As-lett (IPA: æz-lεt)

Interview with Linus Torvalds Linux Foundation
Linus speaks about the Linux Kernel Summit and shares his thoughts on kernel quality, regressions and the state of the current release cycle.

Database Radio EnterpriseDB
Database Radio is EnterpriseDB’s podcast series about open source database trends and technologies.