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In other news…

# EnterpriseDB confirmed Red Hat investment, partnership.

# Whitehouse.gov migrated to Drupal, as well as Linux, Apache, MySQL and Solr.

# Amazon Web Services introduced Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), based on MySQL.

# Canonical announced Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition including Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), which is powered by software from Eucalyptus Systems.

# Qualcomm established a wholly-owned subsidiary, QuIC, focused on mobile open source platforms.

# John Sichi announced the formation of Dynamo Business Intelligence Corp, (aka Dynamo BI), a new commercially supported distribution, and sponsor, of LucidDB, while Nicholas Goodman revealed that the company has acquired the commercial rights to LucidDB.

# Apple closed its open source ZFS project.

# SCO Group’s trustee said the company should pursue IBM, Novell lawsuits.

# Actuate announced the results of the fourth annual Actuate open source survey.

# Andrew Aitken said long live the freeriders.

# Varien announced version 1.6 Release of Magento Enterprise Edition eCommerce software.

# H Online reported on why Adobe likes open source,

# Marc Fleury asked, Open source - a modern day Marxist utopia?

# InformationWeek asked, Can Open Source Software Save Democracy?

# MindTouch presented a list of the most influential executives in open source, as ranked by their peers.

# Messaging Architects became an Open Invention Network licensee.

# A Harvard Business School paper on open source and proprietary business models.

# Linux Journal asked, is cloud computing good or bad for open source?

# Mitch Kapoor declared Microsoft’s war with open source over.

# MaxiScale introduced Generator, an open source file staging test tool.