Eben Moglen says EC case against Oracle-Sun is flawed. The value of open source. And more.

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# Eben Moglen told the EC he does not see threat to competition from Oracle-Sun, says EC’s objections are flawed. A statement from the SFLC is here, while the letter itself is here.

# The New York Post reported that Oracle has offered to quarantine MySQL as a separate business entity within Oracle. Oracle said the New York Post article is “completely untrue”.

# Bernard Dalle articulated the opportunity for open source in cloud computing.

# Alex Weid explained “The value of Open Source Software in enterprise IT”.

# Nelson Ko asked “Do Open Source and Venture Capital Mix?”

# Mike Vizard explained “The New Economics of Open Source in the Enterprise”.

# Mark Radcliffe explained “Why the NY Times is Wrong about Open Source”.

# Thoughtful analysis by Kelly Herrell on strategic value of open source businesses and M&A.

# Novell reported $149m Linux revenue in fiscal 09, up 21%. Total 09 revenue down 10% to $862m, net loss $213m.

# Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco wrote to the EC urging it to approve Oracle-Sun.

# Zend released version 7.1 of its Zend Studio PHP environment.

# Is Eclipse an Open Source Community or Trade Association? eWeek provided a summary of the recent debate.

# In the face of competition, Red Hat articulated the benefits of its subscription model.

# GroundWork Open Source announced a new SUSE-based virtual appliance for systems management.

# SugarCRM released version 5.5 including a new mobile studio editor and web services framework.

# Opsera released version 3.5 of its open source systems management software

# Datamation reported Open Source Projects and the Meritocracy Myth.

# Alfresco detailed the first open source software stack to obtain U.S. Department of Defense 5015.02 certification.

# Mark Callaghan, MySQLer at Facebook (and previously Google) explained how Oracle RDBMS != MySQL RDBMS.

# Nokia maintained that it is not giving up on Symbian.

# Dutch Government to release open source tools To Help European entrepreneurs.

# Swedish National Police Board (SNPB) to save €20m by switching to open source servers.

# KnowledgeTree released version 3.7 of its open source document management software.

# Zmanda launched Zmanda Backup Appliance (ZBA), a pre-configured virtual backup server for VMware environments

# OSS Watch examined the issue of release management in open source projects

# Open source collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange released a free connector for Mozilla Thunderbird.

# WaveMaker released a version of its open source cloud development platform for Mac OS X.

# Should Microsoft open source Internet Explorer? Matt Asay and Preston Gralla think so.