HP acquire Palm. Microsoft and HTC sign patent deal. And more.

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# HP agreed to acquire Palm for $1.2bn.

# Microsoft and HTC signed a patent agreement for HTC’s mobile phones running Android.

# Simon Crosby shared his thoughts on Red Hat’s abandonment of Xen.

# NetworkWorld considered what impact Symantec’s purchase of PGP Corp will have on the PGP project.

# Rod Johnson explained the role SpringSource technology plays in VMforce.

# LWN published an article on the barriers to London’s open source adoption.

# Oracle is reportedly limiting support for Lustre 2.0 to those using Oracle hardware.

# Stephen O’Grady provided his thoughts on Cassandra and The Enterprise Tension.

# SCO Group asked the judge to overrule jury in Unix ownership case. They’re persistent, I’ll give them that.

# Day Software released version 2.1 of CRX, based on the Apache Jackrabbit, Felix and Sling projects.

# Open-Xchange simplified pricing for its SaaS e-mail and collaboration software.

# OTRS released OTRS::ITSM 2.0, the latest rev of its IT service management software.

# Microsoft released the source code of the .NET Framework Client Libraries for OData under the Apache 2.0 license.

# PrismTech released version 5.1 of its OpenSplice DDS data distribution software.

# enStratus announced support for private cloud infrastructures based on Eucalyptus.