Red Hat’s financial results. Further Sun acquisition rumours. OSBC round-ups. Cloud. Microsoft. Vendor lock-in. Linux on the desktop (or not). Transparency. Open source in the travel industry. And more.

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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 final two days of EclipseCon, OSBC, etc:

# Red Hat announced annual revenue of $653 million, up 25% from prior year.

# Savio Rodrigues: Don’t worry about Red Hat’s 2009 profit decline.

# Sourcefire named new board member.

# OStatic: Sun Microsystems Was Shopped Around to Potential Buyers for Months.

# The Register: Oracle and HP proposed joint Sun dismemberment deal.

# Matt Asay: Is open source enabling next-gen vendor lock-in?

# Andrew Lampitt introduced two variants on the Open-Core licensing strategy.

# Zack Urlocker: OSBC blog report: It’s all about disruption.

# InfoWorld: Red Hat CEO questions desktop’s relevance in Linux debate.

# Savio Rodrigues: Open source can teach the software industry to use transparency for joint customer/vendor benefit.

# “I respectfully disagree.” Carlo Daffara gives his take on the Microsoft open source software white paper. Our take is here.

# Stephen Walli declared IBM the winner of Wednesday’s OSBC keynote contest between Sun, Microsoft, and IBM.

# InformationWeek: Sun Links Open Source Strategy To Cloud Computing.

# Infoworld: Microsoft holds hands with but won’t join Eclipse.

# Novell’s John Dragoon wrote in Forbes on how the U.S government could “save billions and foster innovation” with open source software.

# Sun launched version 3 of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure software.

# Deutsche Post spin-off SOPERA introduced next-generation application development platform.

# Essentia released next generation of EssentiaESP for building online communities.

# Eric Raymond explained why the world doesn’t need reciprocal licenses.

# Aptana unveiled cloud integration for Java and Eclipse.

# Red Hat announced contribution to Apache CXF.

# MindTouch delivered the Social Media News platform powered by MindTouch.

# EclipseSource introduced security for open source downloads.

# Farelogix launched ‘Project Hawkeye’, an open source travel management point-of-sale application.

# Swiss company Skysoft started Albatross, a set of open source applications for air traffic controllers.