New CEOs for Funambol and Openbravo. Funding for 10gen. And more.
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# Funambol appointed Amit Chawla as its new CEO.
# Openbravo appointed Paolo Juvara as its new CEO and raised a new funding round.
# 10gen raised $6.5m in third-round funding led by Sequoia Capital.
# Microsoft has reportedly invested an undisclosed sum in TurboHercules.
# Novell reported Linux platform revenue of $144m in fiscal 2010, down 3.2% on 2009. Total revenue down 5.8% to $812m.
# The EC has fallen foul of its own OSS procurement policy with its “quasi-open source” Alfresco implementation.
# Tasktop announced that Tasktop for Visual Studio is now in beta.
# Kurt von Finck clarified Monty Program’s position on the MariaDB trademark.
# Giuseppe Maxia discussed the state of MySQL forks.
# The Register reported that Oracle has not registered the Hudson trademark it is currently attempting to enforce.
# GroundWork announced its Enterprise Quickstart version of GroundWork Monitor Enterprise 6.3.
# ActiveState is offering its ActivePython Community and Business Editions as part of a pre-built AMI for EC2.
# The openSUSE project launched the Tumbleweed rolling update project.
# Alfresco announced the first official release of its Activiti BPM software.
# Dave Rosenberg reported on the latest Linux Foundation kernel development report.
# Sonatype launched Sonatype Professional including integrated Maven, Nexus Pro, Hudson and m2eclipse.
# Magnolia announced the release of Magnolia CMS 4.4.
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