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# Google launched the Chromium OS open source project, a prelude to the Chrome OS, while Canonical confirmed that it is contributing to the development of Chrome OS.

# Terracotta acquired the Quartz open source job scheduling and workload management software project.

# The European Commission extended its Oracle/Sun review deadline until Jan 27 at the request of Oracle

# Mozilla revealed its 2008 revenue was $78.6m, up 5%. Expenses were $49.4m, up 48%.

# Roberto Galoppini wrote about open source value creation and consumption.

# Exadel and Actuate formed a strategic alliance to promote the use of BIRT in enterprise applications.

# Savio Rodrigues explained how Microsoft Azure, like Amazon’s Web Services, will capture open source revenue streams.

# MuleSoft released Mule Data Integrator for data mapping and transformation.

# MindTouch launched a version of its collaboration platform for the cloud.

# Tristan Renaud, on software pricing, asked to hide or not to hide?

# Mik Kersten published growing open source ecosystems: the install story.

# CodePlex Foundation announced its first gallery/project - The ASP.NET Ajax Library.

# Zenoss released version 2.5 of its commercially licensed Zenoss Enterprise product.

# ActiveState launched Firefly, a hosted project management and collaboration offering based on Trac.

# Opengear released Opengear Monitor, a new centralized monitoring system based on Nagios.

# Infobright and Talend teamed up with Jaspersoft for open source data warehousing/integration/BI appliances.

# WaveMaker launched WaveMaker 6.0, pitching it as an open source cloud development platform.

# Vyatta partnered with OpenVPN on an auto-configuring VPN offering for branch offices and remote workers.

# Matt Asay explained why pro-open source policies do not always mean more open source.

# Microsoft announced Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse and SDKs for PHP and Java.

# The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to build a repository for hosting and developing it’s open source applications.

# SugarCRM announced its CRM Applications will available be on Windows Azure.

# Linux.com published an interview with Tim Golden, Open Source Software Infrastructure Strategist at Bank of America.

# Roman Stanek raised the issue of openness in commercial open source software pricing.

# Tarus Balog raised some interesting questions about Zenoss Core/Enterprise licensing.