A herd of Hadoop announcements. Rockmelt raises $30m. And more.
A herd of Hadoop announcements
# Yahoo! and Benchmark Capital confirmed the formation of Hortonworks, an
independent company focused on the development and support of
Apache Hadoop.
# Cloudera announced the availability of Cloudera Enterprise 3.5 and the launch of Cloudera SCM Express, based on the new Service and Configuration Manager in Cloudera Enterprise 3.5.
# MapR …
[Read more]Apache OpenOffice.org proposal approved. SkySQL Tekes new funding. And more.
# The proposal for OpenOffice.org to become an Apache incubator project was unanimously approved.
# Rob Weir discussed how the relationship between OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice need not be a zero-sum game.
# Simon Phipps offered his thoughts on the potential positive and negative outcomes.
# Tekes, the main public funding agency for research, development, and innovation in Finland, …
[Read more]Yet more Apache OpenOffice fall-out. Bacula Systems raises $5m. And more.
# As the proposal to incubate OpenOffice.org at Apache went live, controversy about the proposal continued. The Free Software Foundation unsurprisingly voiced its support in favour of the LGPL LibreOffice project,which Keith Curtis outlined his opposition to the plan.
# Bacula Systems raised $5m from KM Capital Partners and from the Swiss Canton of Vaud.
# Joe Brockmeier …
[Read more]Linus announces Linux 3.0. Attachmate maintains commitment to SUSE Linux. And more.
# Linus Torvalds announced the release candidate of Linux 3.0.
# Attachmate CEO Jeff Hawn maintained that the company is committed to SUSE Linux.
# OpenX raised $20m series D funding.
# Cloudera proposed Flume as an Apache incubator project.
# Isidorey unveiled CloudSandra: a NoSQL database-as-a-service based on Apache Cassandra.
# Wayne Beaton …
[Read more]Shuttleworth opens a can of worms. Fedora 15. IBM commits to Hadoop. And more.
# Mark Shuttleworth shared his thoughts on companies, contributor agreements and free software, prompting responses from Simon Phipps, and Dave Neary.
# The Fedora Project launched Fedora 15.
# IBM launched a new version of its BigInsight software, based on Hadoop, committed $100m to …
[Read more]EMC launches Greenplum HD. DataStax releases Brisk. And more.
# EMC launched its Greenplum HD Hadoop distribution, with the support of Jaspersoft, Pentaho, and SnapLogic, among others.
# DataStax …
[Read more]Novell sold to Attachmate. Barnes & Noble throws the book at Microsoft. And more.
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# Novell closed its acquisition by Attachmate and its patent sale to CPTN.
# Attachmate’s CEO discussed the company’s plans for SUSE Linux.
# Barnes & Noble …
[Read more]Paranoid Android. Canonical and Gnome. A new OSI. And more.
Paranoid Android
If you are interested in the potential violation of the GPL by
the Android kernel you have probably already immersed yourself in
the numerous blog posts published on the topic. If not, start
with Sean Hogle’s analysis or Bradley M Kuhn’s overview of the original allegations and work
backwards from there, not forgetting a detour for the obligatory Microsoft connection. Linus
Torvalds said
claim “seems totally bogus”. In the meantime, Microsoft …
VMware grows 41%. Evidence of Java infringement disputed. And more.
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# VMware announced full year revenue growth of 41% to $2.9bn.
# Alleged evidence of infringing Java code in Android disputed.
# Oracle nominated SouJava, the Brazilian Java User Group, to a seat in the JCP Executive Committee.
# The Document Foundation launched LibreOffice 3.3. …
[Read more]Funding for OpenGamma. Riptano becomes OpenStax. And more.
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# OpenGamma raised $6m series B funding.
# Apache Cassandra-supporter Riptano changed its name to DataStax and has added 50 customers in 6 months.
# WANdisco acquired the SVNForum.org Subversion user community.
# Univa hired the principal engineers from the Grid Engine team, will publish a …
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