Oracle closes Sun acquisition. The state of the union at Red Hat. And more.

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# Oracle has completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

# Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst discussed the current State of the Union at Red Hat.

# Oracle told eWeek Java will be “business as usual”.

# CNet published Scott McNealy’s farewell email to Sun employees.

# The WSJ reported that Larry Ellison plans to add 2,000 sales and engineering employees to Sun.

# Red Hat encouraged Oracle to take advantage of its Java opportunity.

# The UK Government revised its policy on open source and open standards. (Pdf)

# Carlo Piana’s thoughts on the EU Oracle Sun Investigation.

# An interview with Monty Widenius on the ongoing campaign to save MySQL.

# Novell launched the SUSE Appliance Toolkit for building, testing and managing software appliances.

# Lucid Imagination claimed 50 customers in its first year.

# The Apache Software Foundation announced Apache SpamAssassin Version 3.3.0.

# xTuple released iTuple – an integrated CRM application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.

# Jitterbit claimed 100% revenue growth.

# OpenLogic partnered with Credativ to support European open source users.

# BonitaSoft announced the release of Bonita Open Solution 5.0.

# Zarafa released the community version of its collaboration platform 6.40.

# The OpenGeo project announced the release of the OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition, version 1.0.

# Ingres launched a preview program for its VectorWise analytic database engine.

# Accenture published a paper on accelerating the benefits of open source software.

# Computerworld asked ‘Should open-source repositories block nations under U.S. sanctions?’

# Laszlo Systems raised $3m in new funding, reports VentureBeat.

# Potix updated its ZK open source Ajax development framework.

# Openbravo launched Openbravo Exchange, an online marketplace for open source ERP software and extensions.

# REvolution Computing named R co-creator Robert Gentleman to its board of directors.