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451 CAOS Links 2010.06.08

, June 8, 2010 @ 11:25 am ET

Government approval. A new WebM license. Advantage Ubuntu. And more.

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Government approval
# The European Parliament adopted a directive calling for greater investment in the use of OSS in the EU.

# The Government of Malta issued a directive giving preference to OSS in all government projects.

# Open Source for America is sponsoring a study to measure the openness of US government agencies.

# The UK Government hinted at an open source mandate.

The best of the rest
# Google changed the license used for its WebM project.

# Canonical confirmed the launch of the Ubuntu Advantage support service.

# NASA and Japan agreed to collaborate on open source reference implementations of interoperable cloud services.

# Pentaho launched an On-Demand BI Suite Subscription.

# Ingres delivered its VectorWise analytic database.

# Abiquo announced plans to release version 1.6 of its cloud management software.

# Intalio launched Intalio|Cloud Summer ’10, an integrated stack for private cloud computing.

# The Eclipse Foundation released the results of its 2010 developer survey.

# IBM announced plans to create an Eclipse project for EGL, its business application programming language.

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