James Gosling joins Google. UK Govt tries again at an OSS strategy. And more.

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# James Gosling joined Google.

# The UK Government published a (nother) new OSS-friendly ICT strategy.

# Savio Rodrigues argued that openness is irrelevant to Android’s growth.

# Collaborative Software Initiative raised $3.7m in new capital investment.

# (Most of) the Symbian source code is now available to partners.

# Likewise claimed 100,000 users of Likewise Open.

# Sauce Labs introduced the Sauce Builder testing tool for Selenium.

# ObjectLabs’ MongoLab hosted MongoDB is now available on Rackspace Cloud.

# Roberto Galoppini shared his thoughts on the potential evolution of the Open Source Initiative.

# Google’s Chris DiBona explained why the company bans the internal use of the AGPL.

# Hive gets production polish.

# Infobright partnered with Zend to improve analytics performance for PHP applications.

# Red Hat CEO said business intelligence is high on acquisition list.

# The Swiss Federal Supreme Court rejected OSS vendors’ appeal against Microsoft contract win.

# Digital Reasoning combined Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop with HBase (and a lot more) in Synthesys 3.1.

# Matt Asay explained why Red Hat will likely be the only pure OSS player to reach $1bn in revenue.

# Platform Computing announced its support for Apache Hadoop.

# Alfresco partnered with Jive Software and consulting partner, SolutionSet to deliver an Alfresco-Jive connector.

# Terracotta updated its Quartz job scheduler software.

# Jaspersoft updated its data integration capabilities http://prn.to/fzFQnd and enhanced its partnership with Talend.

# Bob Sutor discussed the importance of trust in building and maintaining community.

# Informatica CEO Sohaib Abbasi is joining Red Hat’s board of directors, along with Dr. Steve Albrecht.

# The OpenNebula Project updated its open source cloud platform to version 2.2.

# Ravel Data is planning an open source implementation of Google’s Pregel distributed graph database.