451 CAOS Links 2011.05.24

Shuttleworth opens a can of worms. Fedora 15. IBM commits to Hadoop. And more.

# Mark Shuttleworth shared his thoughts on companies, contributor agreements and free software, prompting responses from Simon Phipps, and Dave Neary.

# The Fedora Project launched Fedora 15.

# IBM launched a new version of its BigInsight software, based on Hadoop, committed $100m to “big data”.

# CBR published a Q&A with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst.

# The US Department of Defense published a report detailing its lessons learned on the use of open source software.

# The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) launched an appeal for users to supply information on recommended open source software applications for use in the UK public sector.

# MuleSoft launched the public beta of Mule iON, its cloud-based integration platform as a service

# Zimory has signed up SkySQL to sell and service its Zimory Scale database hypervisor software.

# Matt Asay wondered about the point of the Open Virtualization Alliance.

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