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451 CAOS Links 2011.05.13
Matthew Aslett, May 13, 2011 @ 12:34 pm ETGoogle orders an Ice Cream Sandwich, hold the Honeycomb. Funding for WSO2 and Typesafe. And more.
# Google introduced Ice Cream Sandwich, attempted to defend the non-release of the source code for Honeycomb, and announced the launch of the Chromebook
# WSO2 closed $6.5m in growth financing provided by Quest Software and Intel Capital.
# Typesafe, formed to build a commercial company behind the Scala programming language, launched with $3m-backing from Greylock Partners.
# Yahoo won a jury verdict that it does not infringe a Linux-related patent.
# Canonical and Ubuntu developers decided to focus solely on OpenStack as the foundation for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud.
# Mark Webbink provided his impressions of Oracle vs Google.
# Matt Asay encouraged Oracle to hurry up and embrace Hadoop.
# Talend became a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation.
Canonical has reportedly joined the GENIVI Alliance and is creating a GENIVI-compliant Ubuntu IVI Remix.
# The Outercurve Foundation added a sixth project to its ASP.NET gallery.
# Openbravo claimed over two million downloads of its open source ERP software.
# Qt Labs provided a progress update on Qt 5.
# Royal Pingdom provided a list of the top 20 Linux desktop strongholds.
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