Acquia raises $15m. Eclipse launches automotive project. And more.
- Acquia raised $15m in series D funding from Tenaya Capital as well as Northbridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners.
- The Eclipse Foundation announced the creation of a new open source initiative to define a standard platform for software development tools in the automotive industry.
- Xamarin announced the availability of MonoTouch and Mono for Android and an agreement with SUSE including a perpetual license to all intellectual property covering Mono.
- The Joomla Project announced the availability of Joomla 1.7.0.
- Oracle announced Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.1.
- EnterpriseDB announced the Postgres Enterprise Manager beta.
- Microsoft was the fifth-largest corporate contributor to the Linux kernel version 3.0.0, as measured by the number of changes to its previous release.
- WSO2 announced the launch of the WSO2 StratosLive PaaS and WSO2 Stratos 1.5.
- Nginx creator Igor Sysoev announced plans to form a commercial company around the open source Web server.
- ScaleXtreme announced support for OpenStack and Citrix’s Project Olympus.
- Allison Randal posted some reflections on Harmony 1.0.
- Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile discussed four key areas Jaspersoft might be considering acquisitions following its recent funding.
- Jesus Rodriguez asked ‘is open source in the cloud still open source?’
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