Pre-OSBC special: VMware goes NoSQL. Magento raises $22.5m. Nuxeo triples customer count. And more.

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# VMware hired Salvatore Sanfilippo, and added his Redis database to its cloud infrastructure portfolio.

# Varien/Magento Commerce raised a $22.5m equity funding round.

# Nuxeo tripled its customers base and 285% revenue growth in 2009.

# IBM selected Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to power its new development and test cloud computing service.

# Novell noted that IBM’s new development and test cloud supports SUSE Linux Enterprise, as well as Red Hat.

# NorthScale launched its supported distribution of memcached and started beta testing its Membase key value store and also confirmed that it raised $5m in series A funding from Accel and North Bridge.

# The Eclipse Foundation published the results of the 2010 Eclipse board election.

# WANdisco hired the lead developer for TortoiseSVN, the Subversion client for Windows.

# BitNami released Ubuntu-based virtual appliances for all of the BitNami-packaged applications.

# Black Duck figures indicate healthy growth in the number of open source mobile projects, particularly for Android.

# The latest version of Open-Xchange’s Groupware offers integrated VoIP.

# Likewise Software’s authentication software is to be included with VMware vSphere.

# Linux.com published a Q&A with Matt Asay on Canonical, Ubuntu, Linux and skiing soundtracks.

# Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.1 is now available.

# Tim Bray confirmed that he has joined Google as Developer Advocate, with a focus is Android.

# OpenLogic launched a new M&A Open Source Audit Service for companies involved in mergers and acquisitions.