Matt Asay joins Canonical. Paula Hunter joins the CodePlex Foundation. And more.

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# Matt Asay joined Canonical as chief operating officer.

# Paula Hunter was named executive director of the CodePlex Foundation.

# Actuate recorded $6.5m in BIRT-related business for Q4; annual BIRT-related business of $18.2m up 18%.

# Glyn Moody outlined The Great Oracle Experiment.

# The Symbian Foundation confirmed the 100% open source Symbian platform.

# Zarafa’s Collaboration Platform is to be packaged for Ubuntu and Fedora.

# Jaspersoft 3.7 Community release is now available.

# Oracle updated its Oracle Enterprise Pack plug-ins for Eclipse.

# CBR published an interview with Novell CEO on the company’s new strategy.

# Nuxeo released its open source Digital Asset Management offering Nuxeo DAM.

# Oracle is discontinuing access to Project Kenai, Sun’s open source project-hosting site.

# Jonathan Schwartz explained his departure from Sun: “Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more.”

# Funambol released version 8.5 of its mobile data sync and collaboration platform.

# Sauce Labs added a number of Python and Jython core committers to its team.

# OSOR.eu is offering public administrations access to more than two thousand free and open source applications.

# INSIDE Contactless is making its Open NFC protocol stack available using the Apache License.

# Bradley M Kuhn provided his views on copyright assignment.

# Black Duck Software was awarded a patent for automatically resolving software license obligations and conflicts.

# Greg Kroah-Hartman published Android and the Linux kernel community.

# Monty Widenius’s view on what to expect next from Oracle-MySQL. Parts one and two.

# Facebook released HipHop, a source code transformer for PHP.