M&A, Strategies, Alliances After porting its SQL Server to Linux, Microsoft is now joining the open source Eclipse Foundation, which provides a Java-based development environment. Kore is acquiring Wyless, uniting two of the M2M old-guard. No price has been given, but the pair the new business will be one of the six largest M2M providers, with 3,000 B2B customers and 350 staff. Dell is committed to expanding into the Industrial IoT, with ruggedized edge computing and gateways set to be a significant part of its portfolio. Bosch has launched its IoT Cloud platform, initially for its in-house projects but planning on opening it to other businesses in 2017. Software LambdaNative is targeting IoT expansion, making the open source functional programming…