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# VMware confirmed its acquisition of Zimbra from Yahoo.

# Facebook became a gold sponsor of the Apache Foundation and outlined its OSS contributions.

# Alfresco’s open source ECM software is integrated with IBM Lotus Quickr, Notes, Connections and WebSphere Portal.

# MySQL’s co-founder David Axmark provided CBR with his views on Oracle acquiring MySQL.

# SFLC declared CES 2010 the best of times and the worst of times for free software.

# Black Duck reported 37% bookings growth in 2009 with IP assessments up 85% in the second half of the year.

# MuleSoft reported 152% growth in recurring subscription revenues, 98% customer growth in 2009.

# SugarCRM claimed revenue, customer, community and partner development growth in 2009.

# Zack Urlocker described the potent combination of open source and inbound marketing.

# MetaPass released its open-source enterprise single sign-on (SSO) software.

# Former Siebel exec Bob Mann joined Openbravo as new Chairman of the Board.

# Ted T’so, the Linux Foundation’s CTO, is moving to Google to work on the Linux kernel and the Ext4 file system.

# StreamBase’s Mark Plamer assessed the potential impact of open source on complex event processing software.

# Eric Lai reported on how Hadoop startup Cloudera is evolving.

# Shaun Walker blogged about his involvement in the CodePlex Foundation.

# Kaltura released an open source video extension for Joomla.

# Sony Pictures Imageworks released the Alpha version of its source code for its Open Shading Language.

# The VAR Guy reported that IBM and Canonical are cooking something up for Lotusphere.

# Joe Brockmeier published Permissive or Reciprocal? Choosing the Right License.

# Forge.mil’s ProjectForge offered SaaS collaborative open source development environment.

# DSS announced the availability of vxVistA open source EHR. For context see Vistapedia’s Which VistA?

# Jason van Zyl provided further insight into Sonatype’s business strategy with regards to Nexus and Maven and explained why Sonatype chose the GPL license for Nexus.

# What a SpringSource’s contribution of dm Server to Eclipse means for the OSGi/Java world, according to Michael Cote.

# Entrust brought its PKI security software to (Red Hat) Linux.

# Djigzo’s open source email encryption gateway now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux.