451 CAOS Links 2011.07.20 - Matthew Aslett, 451 Caos Theory

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?’