451 CAOS Links 2011.05.13 - The 451 Group, Matthew Aslett

Google 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.