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Given a large number of events, meetings, presentations and conference sessions to attend this week I am dispensing with the commentary/smart alec remarks. Here are the major headlines from the first two days of EclipseCon, OSBC,

# Rumors that Red Hat is about to get gobbled by Oracle were fueled by a research note by Jefferies & Co. analyst Katherine Egbert.

# TomTom got Linux patent protection as a licensee of the Open Invention Network.

# Microsoft now has a company-wide position on open source (PDF warning).

# “You’re on ten… Where can you go from there? Where?” Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise goes to eleven.

# 2009 ‘future of open source’ annual survey results announced at OSBC.

# ZDNet: Microsoft claims economy putting a damper on migrations to and from open source.

# Pentaho launched BI to the clouds with BI Suite V3.

# Red Hat launched JBoss Developer Studio 2.0 – Portfolio Edition.

# Eclipse announced Swordfish, an OSGi ESB that builds on Eclipse Equinox and Apache ServiceMix.

# OpenLogic delivered remote monitoring of open source software stacks.

# Compiere released version 3.3 of open source ERP with support for Amazon EC2.

# Stephen Walli: Why I think community managers report to engineering instead of marketing.

# ChannelWeb reports on Bluebear.org, an open source virtualization management startup.

# Nuxeo announced 5.2 update of its open source ECM software.

# Intel open source expert Danese Cooper heads to start-up Revolution Computing.

# Talend announced an OEM partnership with SOPERA.

# Protecode updated software IP management products.

# eWeek: Microsoft Preps Open-Source Apps Marketplace.

# Actuate launched BIRT Global Partner Connection.

# ActiveState’s Komodo IDE 5.1 released.