Shuttleworth steps down as Canonical CEO. Open source at SAP. And more.

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# Mark Shuttleworth explained why he is stepping down as CEO of Canonical.

# Groklaw published The EU and Microsoft Settle Browser Issue; Interoperability with FOSS Still a Problem.

# Erwin Tenhumberg published an overview of open source at SAP in 2009.

# OpenLogic launched an Open Source Fulfillment Center to help companies ensure compliance with open source licenses.

# Ingres lost a claim for $60m made against its former owner CA, is required to provide products and support to CA.

# Krishnan Subramanian dug a bit deeper into open source as an end game for SaaS.

# Serdar Yegulalp noted that open source, minus people, equals zero.

# Stormy Peters pointed out that, open source or not, hosted software is very hard for end users to use without hosting.

# Open-Xchange added 7 million collaboration software end users in 2009, an increase of 80%.

# Continuent updated its open source replication For MySQL And PostgreSQL.

# Rackspace Cloud added FathomDB, MySQL Database-as-a-Service, to its Cloud Tools ecosystem.

# Untangle updated its open source Web filtering software to version 7.1.

# OpenNebula released version 1.4 of the OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Manager.

# WS02 released a portal server, WSO2 Gadget Server and also Business Activity Monitor.

# Alfresco and RightScale partner to enhance content management in the cloud.

# Matt Asay published a Q&A with Eucalyptus CTO Rich Wolski.

# JavaWorld published The Problem of the Open Source Commons: Harsh Economic Realities of Open Source Software.

# Bruce Perens’ statement on Busybox lawsuits.

# openQRM team lead Matt Rechenburg formed openQRM Enterprise GmbH.

# MindTouch and SnapLogic unveiled a jointly developed application integration offering.

# Black Duck announced its Enterprise Code Search Initiative, building on its acquisition of Koders.com.