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Mike “JIRA JIRA JIRA” Cannon-Brookes pinged me on IM tonight to let me know that Atlassian has acquired Cenqua. Cenqua, as you might know, makes the fancy-dandy FishEye product for viewing source repositories. Atlassian is the Australian wiki/bug-tracking giant run by stylish surfers.
Congrats to both groups. I enjoyed having beers with the [...]

Today, my Canadian friend Jason van Zyl announced his new company based around all things maven.
Jason, as you may know, is the founder of both Maven and the first maven-centric company, Mergere. For some history, Mergere was a child of Simula Labs. Simula started life as a VC-ish incubator, but now seems to [...]

Just got back from Vegas, where I participated on a panel about opensource and business at TheServerSide Java Symposium. It involved five of us from businesses that were related to opensource in some form. It did not include Geir Magnusson, who apparently had better things to do.

Alfresco, John Newton
JBoss, some guy with a [...]