Novell is going to pieces. But who will pick them up? And more.

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# The New York Post reported that Novell has agreed a deal in principle to sell itself in two parts.

# Joe Brockmeier asked Who’s buying Novell?

# VAR Guy covered the speculation that VMware will acquire Novell’s SUSE Linux business.

# Local Tech Wire asked Is Red Hat bidding for Novell’s Linux business, or will a SUSE sale set a price for Red Hat?

# The OpenStack projectrevealed details of its governance framework.

# The SCO Group announced that its Unix assets are now up for auction.

# Yahoo talked up its Hadoop contributions (“70% of all code written”) and benefits.

# Oracle said it will work with the OpenJDK code base and the OpenJDK community like Sun did.

# Google relaunched the developer tools it acquired along with Instantiations.

# NetworkWorld’s Julie Bort took Cisco to task for its contributions to open source.

# Carlo Daffara discussed strategy, tactics, and why companies are free to not contribute.

# Rackspace is moving to monthly billing for RHEL instances, due to “changes in subscription arrangements with Red Hat”.

# Diaspora released the source code for its open source social network.

# Stephen Walli warned against confusing open source and open standards.

# The UK Government is committed to using more open source.

# MuleSoft announced the general availability of Mule ESB 3.0.

# Cloudera and Teradata partnered to develop a Hadoop connector for Teradata.

# Opsview teamed up with Canonical to drive adoption of Opsview Enterprise with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition.

# The OpenIndiana distribution of OpenSolaris is now available for download.

# Amazon Web Services introduced its own Amazon Linux AMI.