Funding for Aptana and Jolicloud. Ingres targets MySQL. Trent Reznor on Open Core (sort of). And more.

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Funding
# Aptana raised $7.8m in funding from Rembrandt Venture Partners and Accel Partners.

# Jolicloud raised $4.2m in series A funding for a Linux-based Netbook OS.

Not with a bang…
# Sun reported preliminary revenues for Q4 2009 of $2.58bn to $2.68bn, compared to $3.78bn a year ago.

Best of the rest
# Ingres announced EasyIngres, a community-developed package for PHP developers to ease migration from MySQL.

# Open core is about giving customers reason to buy, not lock-in, as Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor explained (Via Matt Asay).

# Daniel Chalef explained why traditional licensing is a disservice to prospects & customers.

# The peer reviewed ‘International Free and Open Source Software Law Review’, is now available.

# Red Hat confirmed the agenda for its Open Source Cloud Computing Forum.

# Morgan Tocker blogged about three key things to know about migrating MySQL into the Cloud.

# Alfresco and Caringo partnered for content management and storage.

# An interview with Sesame Workshop’s VP of Information Services about its use of Linux.

# Seth Gottlieb accused Bluenog of violating the Apache Software License.

# Roberto Galoppini argued that Europe should investing in working with existing open source resources, rather than mimicking them.

# Xandros’ BridgeWays enabled cross-platform applications monitoring from Microsoft System Center Operations Manager.

Notes from the Twittersphere
# RT @bklawans: Best advice re OSS: choose yr business model, then the license. From Larry Rosen – thx.

# RT @cdaffara: to have a good OSS company, you must have a good company to start with. OSS does not change economic rules.