Have Cisco and the FSF settled their lawsuit? Red Hat launches business rules management software. Talend goes massively parallel. And more.

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# New Media Law reported that Cisco and FSF have settled their lawsuit.

# Red Hat launched JBoss Enterprise BRMS – business rules management,

# Talend introduced MPx integration suite for massively parallel data integration based on MapReduce.

# Microsoft’s Horacio Gutierrez and Linux Foundation’s Jim Zemlin explain their joint letter to American Law Institute.

# Tarus Balog provided some interesting insight on Nimsoft’s acquisition of Cittio.

# Are government procurement guidelines compatible with OSS? Dana Blankenhorn and James Dixon discuss.

# Matt Asay discussed cloud computing as the natural conclusion of open source.

# Black Duck announced a partnership with Microsoft to provide access to CodePlex projects via KnowledgeBase and Koders.com.

# Roberto Galoppini explained Alfresco’s business strategy while Josef Assad speculated about how greater community engagement would help Alfresco’s adoption in the European public sector.

# Canonical launched Landscape 1.3 now manages Ubuntu Server Edition on EC2.

# Marketcetera has upgraded its open source trading platform.

# Paglo delivers SaaS applications for managing physical and virtual server infrastructure.

# Digium launched Switchvox Developer Central online community.

# Nuxeo announced its highest quarter since its inception in 2000.

# <Jonathan Schwartz: Will the Java Platform Create The World’s Largest App Store?

# Do we really need another OSS mobile stack? Asked Fabrizio Capobianco, not unreasonably.

# Michael Dehaan: Recognizing and Avoiding Common Open Source Community Pitfalls.