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Automattic gets a US $29.5M round of Series B funding.

Alfresco secures a US $9M round of Series C funding.

Sun Microsystems pays a cool US $1 Billion for MySQL.

What's the common thread?

Forrester has released a list of 10 reasons why Apple's iPhone is no friend to IT.

You can probably think of a few already: the prohibitive cost, the first-gen factor, and fidelity to AT&T.

In English this time: IBM has joined OpenOffice.org, reportedly to "collaborate on software development for the Open Document Format (ODF), an ISO standard that governs the creation, storage, and exchange of documents," says Mark Long of newsfactor.com.

IBM will start by sharing the code it's been developing for its Lotus Notes software, including certain accessibility fixes that may allegedly help OpenOffice "reach parity" with Microsoft's current offering for disabled workers via Office.

While Sun vigilantly stormed the ECM gates, competitors Microsoft, Palm and European developer Symbian were strutting for the wireless Internet market.

Well, now Sun's beams are back on mobile, and the long-dormant Internet innovator is bringing some new tricks along with it.

While our host waxes poetic about dinosaurs, I'm going to take an opportunity to update you on all the good that's gone down this morning.

Sun Microsystems senior staff engineer Tor Norbye kicked us off this morning with Ruby Tooling: State of the Art. For those expecting the him to get dangerously gung-ho about Ruby's merits (Sun is, after all, getting quite intimate with jRuby), we (yeah, we) were mildly disappointed.