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A startup built around the Mule open source integration project is set to make its corporate debut Tuesday. MuleSource is backed by US$4 million secured in a first round of venture funding it closed this past summer.

An alliance of leading software vendors have announced progress on specifications to define a language-neutral programming model for application development within SOA (service-oriented architecture) environments.

Progress Software is adding Eclipse integration to its OpenEdge application development and deployment platform as well as links to affiliate Sonic Software's ESB (enterprise service bus).

Progress Software will announce its membership in the Eclipse Foundation for open source tooling. With this move, Progress will follow companies such as Borland Software and BEA Systems in joining the IBM-spawned Eclipse organisation.

With the release of MySQL 4.0, the licensing policy of the wildly popular open source database underwent a subtle change. The code libraries that client programs use to access the native MySQL API, formerly licensed under the LGPL (Lesser General Public License), were converted to the GPL. The LGPL was designed to exempt "nonfree" programs that link against open source libraries from the GPL's strong requirement to release source code. The purpose of the LGPL, according to the Free Software Foundation, is "to encourage the widest possible use of a certain library, so that it becomes a de-facto standard." And indeed, MySQL has become the database pillar of the so-called LAMP platform, whose acronym expands to Linux, Apache, MySQL, and the trio of Perl, Python, and PHP.

Four Linux development companies, banding together under the rubric of UnitedLinux, hope that streamlining development and certification of a standards-based Linux distribution tailored to enterprise needs can get Linux up to speed in a market where it still lags. But Red Hat shouldn't worry just yet.

US Federal District Judge Patti B. Saris issued a preliminary injunction on the lesser of two issues under consideration late last week, after MySQL AB and Progress Software failed to come to the out-of-court settlement she urged in their lawsuit. Despite this, however, the companies are continuing to try to reach a settlement.

A hearing in Boston federal court Wednesday adjourned an hour earlier than expected when District Court Judge Patti B. Saris urged MySQL AB and Progress Software Corp. to reach a settlement instead of having her issue a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit involving the GNU General Public License (GPL).