Topics for this podcast:
*Jacobsen v. Katzer and open source impact
*Intel, Nokia team up for MeeGo open source OS
*Open source continues in embedded space
*MongoDB and the advent of the NoSQL databases
*Copyrights, complexities, control and conflict
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Spring forward. Freeloaders, leeches and hermits. Intel buys Wind River. And more.
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A Spring in its step
SpringSource boasted of rapid revenue growth while CEO Rod
Johnson claimed
that Red Hat’s Open Choice initiative is defensive response to
SpringSource, a suggestion that was denied by Rich Sharples.
Freeloaders, leeches and hermits
I already provided my views earlier this week on Infoworld’s
report about open source ‘leeches’ and corporate contributions.
The debate continued as Dave Rosenberg …
Cloudera lands funding. SourceForge acquires Ohloh. Novell reports Linux growth. And more.
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Cloudera shows signs of progress
GigaOM reported
that Cloudera raised $6m Series B funding from Accel and Greylock
and is now looking beyond web applications to wider
enterprise adoption of Hadoop. Cloudera also announced its first
certification program for Hadoop.
Open source goes mainstream in the UK
There have been signs of change recently with regards to open
source adoption in the UK, which has traditionally lagged behind
the rest of Europe and the US. CBR Magazine provided an analysis of …
In 1809, a hero in America's Revolutionary War, General John Stark, was forced to decline an invitation to a military reunion due to ill health. He sent a toast to be read in his absence that began, "Live Free or Die." That phrase is now the official motto of the American state of New Hampshire (where Stark lived), known for a fierce sense of independence (and no income taxes).
Hold that thought for a moment.
Today, we're announcing the single biggest and most important OEM/distribution agreement Sun's ever signed for the open source Solaris operating system - through which we'll be joining forces with the world's largest supplier of high volume servers, Hewlett Packard. As a result of the deal, Solaris gains tier 1 status, …
[Read more]Sun and Sourcefire report Q3 results. SpringSource elected to JCP executive committee. Alfresco launches Enterprise 3.0. How to go from 0 to 700 customers in one year. Open sourcing Jonathan Schwartz’s ponytail. And more.
Press releases
Sun Microsystems Reports Final Results for the
First Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 Sun Microsystems
Sourcefire Announces 2008 Third Quarter Results Sourcefire
Sourcefire Adopts Stockholder Rights Plan Sourcefire
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[Read more]I spent part of yesterday attending the Open Source Summit at Portland’s Innotech Business and Technology Conference, and moderating a panel on ‘IT Giants and Open Source.’ We had a great discussion about the reasons, roles, responsibilities and rewards for big vendors to be acutely and adequately participating in open source software development and commercialization. Our fabulous panelists were Danese Cooper, open source diva, knitting machine and present to give perspective from Intel, Stuart Cohen of OSDL fame and current leader of startup CSI and …
[Read more]We got a couple of new servers at Solfo recently which showed me one of the reasons virtualization is so popular now: Servers are too fast!
The "standard issue" CPU is now a quad-2.5GHz CPU, so in each server we have 20 GHZ CPU and 32GB ram (at less than $50 per gigabyte it's too cheap to not just fill it up and be done upgrading). Just a few years ago the CPUs we were getting were "only" dual 2GHz, for ~8GHz CPU per box. That's a big increase!
In each "tier" of the application (app servers, db servers, search servers) our main reason for having more than one or two servers is redundancy / high availability - never lack of CPU and rarely because we need more memory.
Here's from one of our webservers (virtualized with Xen with 6 of the 8 CPUs on the "real" hardware).
The big exception is the MySQL servers where we get constrained by I/O so we need a single …
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