Ubuntu cloud services. PostgreSQL 8.4. And more.

Venture capital funding for open source vendors was down 50% in the second quarter compared to the same period last year. No great surprise there, but there was some good news as that figures was an increase on $45.4m raised in Q1.
According to our preliminary figures, there were 13 announced funding deals in the second [...]

Governments. Governance. Customers wins. And more.

Red Hat revenue growth. The importance of Eclipse Galileo. And more.

Reductive Labs raises funding. Virtual Iron bites the dust. And more.

Red Hat beta Enterprise Virtualization, partners with HP for SOA. And more.

Open source and SMBs. New funding for Lucid Imagination. And more.

Yahoo opens up Hadoop distribution. Microsoft and Novell claim customer wins. And more.

Vyatta raises series C funding. Greenplum launches data cloud initiative. Fedora 11. And more.

SpringSource makes progress. Freeloaders, leeches and hermits. Intel buys Wind River. And more.

Cloudera lands funding. SourceForge acquires Ohloh. Novell reports Linux growth. And more.
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Cloudera shows signs of progress
GigaOM reported that Cloudera raised $6m Series B funding from Accel and Greylock and is now looking beyond web applications to wider enterprise adoption of Hadoop. Cloudera also announced its first certification program for Hadoop.
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OpenX and Siruna raise funding. Red Hat sues Switzerland. Open source business models. And more.

Open source in central and local government. Open source and cloud computing. FSF and Cisco settlement. And more.

Have Cisco and the FSF settled their lawsuit? Red Hat launches business rules management software. Talend goes massively parallel. And more.

Open Database Alliance formed. Oracle buys Virtual Iron. AccesStream reaches version 1.0. And more.

SugarCRM loses its CEO. Reaction to the Nagios fork. Oracle’s hardware plans. And more.

SpringSource acquires Hyperic. What is the point of community? Nagios forks. And more.

Is the Apache License better than the GPL? Good results for Sourcefire, Actuate BIRT and Fonality. Ugly results for Sun. Funding for Likewise Software and Eucalyptus Systems. SugarCRM Express. GroundWork Monitor Starter Edition. And more.

OIN aims to cut the FAT. What is the point of the GPL? Black Duck takes flight. Ingres delivers Salesforce.com appliance. The ongoing fallout from Oracle-Sun. Feedback on the Bee Keeper model. And more.

Oracle buys Sun. Sun previews MySQL update, makes GlassFish Portfolio, OpenSSO and OpenDS available on EC2. Numerous partner announcements from the MySQL conference. Red Hat maps open source adoption. And more.