Citrix joins the Linux Foundation. BonitaSoft raises $3m. And more.

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# Citrix joined The Linux Foundation.

# Open source BPM vendor BonitaSoft raised $3m from Ventech and Auriga Partners.

# Jaspersoft updated JasperReports Professional with enhanced data visualization.

# US CIO Vivek Kundra outlined the government’s cloud strategy, using NASA’s open source Nebula cloud.

# Infobright claimed to have increased its customer base tenfold since going open source a year ago.

# OStatic asked “Is Open Source M&A Set to Go On a Tear?”

# Savio Rodrigues published “Avoiding pitfalls when using open source code in enterprise software development.”

# Stephen Walli presented a discussion of open source business tactics, and reiterated that there is no open source business model.

# The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) said it has a duty to invest public funds in open source.

# Matt Asay reported on VISA’s adoption of Hadoop, suggesting that enterprise uptake of the Apache project is ready to boil over.

# GroundWork announced integration with Microsoft System Center and joined Microsoft’s System Center Alliance.

# Infoworld asked “would MySQL survive without Oracle?”

# Alfresco launched an Amazon EC2-ready stack and developer kit.

# KnowledgeTree partnered with Zend to deploy version 3.7 of KnowledgeTree’s ECM software on Zend Server

# CIO.com published “five open source project management apps to watch”.

# AccesStream released Version 1.1 of its open source of its identity access management product.

# Sugar Labs and Free Software Foundation teamed up to promote the Sugar Learning Platform for children.

# LIMO Foundation published a white paper uses quantitative techniques to examine economic benefits of OSS.

# Matt Asay wrote “We are all open-source companies now. Which also means that none of us are.”

# Richard Hillesley explored the importance of trademarks for open source.

# MySpace open sourced Qizmt, an internally developed MapReduce-based framework for distributed computation.

# TwitApps is shutting down, going open source.