Funding for AlienVault. Compiere and Gear6 acquired. And more.

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# AlienVault raised $4m in Series A round funding from Adara Venture Partners with Teldat Group and Neotec.

# Eucalyptus Systems launched Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition 2.0, including support for Windows virtual machines.

# Consona acquired open source ERP and CRM vendor Compiere.

# Violin Memory acquired the technology assets of Memcached supporter Gear6.

# Carlo Daffara shared his thoughts on the future of software forges.

# A comparison of Black Duck and the FOSSology project, by Black Duck and the FOSSology project.

# Bob Sutor presented 10 ideas about integrating open source into your IT infrastructure.

# Dell no longer thinks Ubuntu is safer than Windows. Predictably.

# Zarafa has launched a new integration framework for its Collaboration Platform. http://bit.ly/cNoihJ

# CollabNet released Subversion Edge, which combines Subversion, Apache, and ViewVC.

# The community edition of Karmasphere’s Studio Hadoop development and deployment environment now supports Eclipse.

# Joe Brockmeier argued that the Free Software Foundation needs a more positive approach to pushing software freedom.

# Marten Mickos said the cloud won’t kill open source.

# VC investor Fred Wilson discussed how to make money with open source software.

# Eric Gries pointed out the importance of recognising that there are two kinds of open source software.

# The NetBeans development team released version 6.9 of the NetBeans IDE.

# OpenGeo released version 2.0 of its OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition open source mapping software.

# Flock redesigned its Social Web Browser based on the Chromium platform.

# Amanda McPherson discussed the basics of FOSS license compliance.