Funding for Engine Yard and DataSync. Red Hat and Microsoft joint support. And more.

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# Engine Yard raised $19m in Series C funding from the likes of Benchmark, DAG, Presidio and Amazon.

# Red Hat and Microsoft are now providing joint support for virtualization interoperability options.

# DataSync raised $1.2m and announced a partnership with SugarCRM.

# Simon Phipps began building a scorecard to assess “open source businesses”.

# Marten Mickos urged the EU to approve Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and therefore MySQL.

# Compiere released an Enterprise Edition of its open source ERP for multi-server configurations.

# Ingres targetted MySQL, proprietary rivals with version 9.3 of open source database.

# Lessons learned from a service-based business model. An excellent and very timely post from OpenLogic.

# Red Hat claimed 75% of the paid Linux market, prompting Novell to dispute Red Hat’s claim to (total) domination of the Linux market.

# Richard Stallman’s take on the CodePlex Foundation prompted Sam Ramji to maintain that free software is not the opposite of commercial software, in the eyes of CodePlex.

# eXo Platform expanded to North America, hires Bob Bickel, Edwin Khodabakchian and Sacha Labourey as advisors.

# Sparxent updated its XAware open source data integration software to version 5.4.

# Terracotta released Terracotta for Caching, a distributed cache product based on the Ehcache caching API.

# John Mark Walker explained the importance of open source as a development model in establishing a market presence.

# PrismTech released an OpenSplice DDS Connector for Apache Camel for systems integration and SOA connectivity.

# Only here for the beer. Paul Rubens reported on the adoption trends indicated by Actuate’s latest open source survey.

# Praxis and AdaCore released a GPL version of the SPARK high assurance software development product.

# Mckoi Software released MckoiDDB, an open source distributed database system.

# Jason Perlow reported on the future of open source thought leadership.

# MuleSoft announced the general availability of Tcat Server, Apache Tomcat distribution.

# GroundWork announced a new pricing structure and entry level monitoring product.

# Funambol released an open source 4G mobile cloud platform for device management and synchronization.

# Misys Open Source Solutions unveiled a new carbon trading product for UK.

# Bright Computing was launched to manage HPC Linux clusters.

# The IT head of London Borough of Camden in the UK explained how government needs to become expert member of communities rather than expert at governing them.

# Vyatta updated its open source router, firewall and VPN software.

# Take James Dixon’s quiz to work out if you are aligned with free software, open source, or proprietary.

# Open-Xchange Server Edition for Univention Corporate Server is targetted education, public admins and SMBs.

# ReadWriteWeb profiled Pachube, an open source platform for creating applications related to the Internet of Things.

# OrangeHRM updated its open source human resources management software to version 2.5.