A bumper CAOS Links rounding up the news and views from the festive period, including: Red Hat revenue up 22% in 3Q. Alan Cox departs for Intel. Evolving open source business strategies. The commercialization opportunity around OpenOffice.org. And more.

Official announcements
Red Hat Reports Third Quarter Results Red Hat

OpenLogic Survey Highlights Enterprise Perspectives on Open Source Application Servers OpenLogic

Asianux Concludes Triumphant Year, Welcomes Fifth Member Asianux

News articles
The future of open source Jason Snyder, InfoWorld

Alan Cox: Moving on from Red Hat Sander Marechal, LXer

An Open Secret Marshall Krantz, CFO Magazine

Sam Ramji: Open source is burgeoning at Microsoft David Worthington, SDTimes

Sun executive reveals more open-source plans for JavaFX Chris Kanaracus, ComputerWorld

Big Blue urged to open Notes and Domino Timothy Prickett Morgan, The Register

Bring Open Source into Hedge Funds Peter Algert, BusinessWeek

Rails and Merb Web frameworks agree to merge James Niccolai, IDG News Service

Seven Predictions for Open Source in 2009 Roger Burkhardt, Dr Dobb’s Journal

Linux in 2009: Recession vs. GNU Bruce Byfield, InternetNews.com

Q&A: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels John Foley, InformationWeek

Blogs
We are all open source/proprietary now Matt Asay, Cnet

Companies drive open source success? Joe Brockmeier, ZDnet

Open source becomes paid software in 2009 Dave Rosenberg, Cnet

Open source business models must be voluntary Dana Blankenhorn, ZDnet

The War for Open Source Tarus Balog

Open source trends in 2009 Zack Urlocker, InfoWorld

Buyouts and Mergers to Proliferate in 2009 Sam Dean, OStatic

A new M&A for open source? Matt Asay, Cnet

Open Source: Not a Business Model and Not Broken Mark Radcliffe

Open Source Maturity Simon Phipps, Sun Microsystems

Increasing Ecosystem Co-operation Dave Neary

MySQL: Now and Then Stephen O’Grady, Redmonk

Does dual-licensing limit community? Joe Brockmeier, ZDnet

Mozilla CEO Confirms “Complicated” Relationship with Google, Since Chrome Sam Dean, OStatic

OpenOffice.org: About Turning OpenOffice.org Migrations into a Business Roberto Galoppini

The market opportunity for OpenOffice.org migrations Savio Rodrigues

OpenOffice.org Migrations: Easing Medium-Large Companies’ Migrations Roberto Galoppini

Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org Michael Meeks

Why is OpenOffice “profoundly sick”? Matt Asay, Cnet

Alan Cox and the End of an Era Glyn Moody, ComputerWorld UK

Alan Cox leaves Red Hat, suggesting company’s future direction Matt Asay, Cnet

No such thing as a free Linux distro Joe Brockmeier, ZDnet

Open source makes serious headway in the U.S. Department of Defense Matt Asay, Cnet

Top Ten Open Source Legal Developments: 2008 Mark Radcliffe

JBoss Virtual Experience 2009 Rick Sharples

Cloud platforms of the future: Hadoop and Eucalyptus Dave Rosenberg, Cnet

A Good Foundation for 2009 Glyn Moody, ComputerWorld UK

Why IBM Should Open Source Notes and Domino Sam Dean, OStatic

Is open sourcing Domino a good idea? Stormy Peters

The Ubuntu Ethos Jono Bacon

Merb gets merged into Rails 3! Riding Rails

Rails And Merb Merge Yehuda Katz

Audio/visual
Comparison Of Open Source App Servers OpenLogic
“OpenLogic provides overview of open source application servers including EJB3 vs. Spring, EJB2 compatibility, and OSGi.”