Oracle responds to Apache. AMD joins MeeGo. And More.

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# Oracle responded to Apache’s threat to leave the JCP.

# AMD joined the MeeGo project.

# Bruce Perens speculated about the patent settlement between Acacia and Red Hat.

# Pentaho announced the availability of the Pentaho Enterprise Data Services Suite.

# An interview with Novell’s Michael Meeks explores the background behind the LibreOffice project.

# BonitaSoft surpassed 500,000 downloads of Bonita Open Solution.

# Zenoss experienced 40% revenue growth in Q3.

# Red Hat released version 5.4 of its Network Satellite systems management software.

# OTRS released version 3.0 of its open source help desk software.

# Facebook’s new Messages service is built on Apache HBase.

# ProcessMaker and OrangeHRM signed a strategic alliance to integrate their open source BPM and HRM applications.

# Duck Duck Go pledged 10% of its income to fund open source projects. Should others do the same?

# Black Duck hired Sara Ford, former community manager for Microsoft’s Codeplex site, for Ohloh.

# Novell announced the launch of the Baracus project, an open source platform for boot and build management.

# The openAPC Foundation has been established to develop and distribute open source Advanced Process Control software.

# WSO2 announced the launch of WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus as a Service.

# WSO2 also announced the launch of four cloud SOA middleware services for business users, and updated WSO2 Governance as a Service and WSO2 Identity as a Service.

# James Dixon shared some statistics on Pentaho adoption.

# The Linux Box released the Enkive Community Edition email archiving, retrieval and reporting system.

# Robert Duffner published an in-depth interview with Riptano founder Jonathan Ellis on Apache Cassandra.

# MontaVista joined the OpenSAF high availability project.

# OpSource added support for Ubuntu LTS to its hosted cloud platform.

# Black Duck acquired the assets of SpikeSource.