Funding for Appcelerator, Riptano and Nexenta. Oracle’s claims against Google. And more.

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# Appcelerator raised a $9m second round funding from eBay and Sierra Ventures.

# Riptano raised $2.7m from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and private investor Jason Calacanis.

# Nexenta announced 59% quarter on quarter revenue growth and strategic funding.

# Sourcefire announced revenue up 32% in Q3 and product expansion plans.

# Nuxeo claimed a record second quarter thanks to public sector projects.

# Oracle claimed Google directly copied code in its development of Android.

# Carlo Daffara dissected Oracle’s claims of direct copying of Java code into Android.

# The Apache Software Foundation noted that the code identified by Oracle in its case against Google is not in Harmony.

# Oracle responded to comments and reiterated its denial that it is attempting to stack the Java Community Process election.

# The Linux Foundation is merging with the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum.

# Nokia’s Niklas Savander maintained that The Symbian Foundation will remain, and will remain open source.

# Matt Asay explained why the Symbian Foundation is a lesson on the wrong way to use open source.

# Digium launched Asterisk SCF, a new open source scalable communications project.

# ForgeRock launched a new identity management project, OpenIDM.

# Tarus Balog shared his thoughts on marketing an open source business.

# Actuate is changing its ticker symbol to BIRT.

# Stormy Peters pondered the future of Gnome.

# Carlo Daffara shared some statistics, and analysis, on TCO for open source software.

# Tuxera launched the Tuxera File System Suite for Android.

# Microsoft plans to make Java and Eclipse first class citizens on Azure.