Oracle increases MySQL pricing. Jono Bacon wants some respect. And more.

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# Oracle increased the prices for MySQL and rejigged its editions.

# A good overview of the resulting MySQL pricing hubbub from @tiensoon

# SkySQL named first customers in open letter to Oracle MySQL customers.

# Actuate reported over $5.1m in BIRT-related business for Q3, up 8% YoY.

# Actuate claimed 10 million BIRT downloads and 1 million BIRT developers.

# Google released Szl, a compiler and runtime for the Sawzall language, as open source software.

# Yahoo released its S4 Real-Time MapReduce project as open source.

# Jelle Hermsen explained why advocacy doesn’t work if you tell someone they’re wrong.

# Jono Bacon called for more respect to be shown by the open source community.

# Calpont launched version 2.0 of its InfiniDB analytic database.

# Matt Asay noted that the devil’s dollars drive open source.

# Salesforce.com is reportedly close to acquiring DimDim.

# Microsoft released an F# 2.0 compiler and core library source code under the Apache 2.0 license.

# Six secrets of open source community building, from Dries Buytaert, via Datamation.

# MindTouch released MindTouch Social Intranet with Workforce by Dachis Group.

# Abiquo Community Edition and Enterprise Edition are now certified with Citrix XenServer.

# Open-Xchange forecast more than 24 million users by year end – an increase of 60% over the prior year.

# Neolex made its open source licensing audit reports available using a Creative Commons license.

# Abiquo partnered with Nexenta Systems to enable Abiquo users to consume resources from Nexenta storage pools.