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# Microsoft announced that it will be applying its Community Promise to the ECMA 334 (C#) and ECMA 335 (CLI) specifications, reducing patent concerns related to Mono.

# Red Hat achieved EAL 2+ security certification for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

# A European Commission white paper on standards stirred some controversy with regards to open source. The white paper itself is available here. (Pdf)

# Alfresco announced Community Edition 3.2 with mobile, email, records management features.

# MuleSource reported 140% year-over-year growth in Q2 and 100% growth for the year-to-date.

# Intalio hired former SAP Executive Stefan Schaffer has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer.

# Rich Sharples explained JBoss Enterprise Web Server and how it fits into Red Hat’s Open Choice strategy.

# Matt Asay discussed the principles he sees as most important in ensuring the success of an open source project.

# UK schools no longer need to buy Microsoft licenses for hardware that is not running Microsoft software, which should have a knock-on effect for the potential adoption of open source.

# Lockheed Martin announced that it is to release an in-house developed social media tool under an open source software license.

# Infobright and Jaspersoft released an integrated virtual machine for BI and data warehousing.

# Corus selected Univa UD, including open source UniCluster on Oracle Enterprise Linux, for private HPC cloud.

# Talend published a case study illustrating how PriceMinister uses Talend to automate their supply chain.

# Sybase announced support for Android with its iAnywhere Blue SDK.

# Continuent launched its Tungsten database replication and HA software for PostgreSQL 8.4.

# Bacula Systems updated its open source network backup and restore software.

# eWeek reported Ingres’ claim to be benefiting from anxiety over the future of MySQL.

# Matt Asay reported on Axial, a new open source healthcare start-up attracting former Red Hat employees.

# The H reported that The Swiss Federal Administrative Court has issued an interim verdict in the Microsoft/OSS case.

# Cnet news reported that Nokia is to bridge Maemo, Symbian with Qt.

# OSOR.EU reported that Dutch police will study moving to open source.

# Merv Adrian reported on how Talend is using open source and community to transform the data integration market.