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]Groklaw declares victory. Cloudera updates Hadoop distro. And more.
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# Groklaw claimed victory, will stop publishing new articles on May 16.
# Cloudera released version 3 of its Hadoop distribution.
# VoltDB released version 1.3 of its open source distributed in-memory database.
# Black Duck grew sales by 51% in Q1.
# eXo and Convertigo …
[Read more]Red Hat grows revenue 20%+. Google withholding Honeycomb source code. And more.
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# Red Hat reported Q4 revenue up 25% to $245m, FY revenue up 22% to $909m
# Google is withholding the source code to Honeycomb for the foreseeable future.
# Rick Clark explained why he left Rackspace amid concerns that the company is exerting too much control over OpenStack.
# DataStax …
[Read more]JCP election results. Funding for Acquia and Continuent. Fedora 14. And more.
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# The Java Community Process election results are in.
# Acquia closed an $8.5m series C funding round and announced that it has tripled its customer base in 2010.
# Continuent appointed Robert Hodges CEO and confirmed details of $5m funding from Aura Capital.
# Red Hat …
[Read more]Microsoft sues Motorola. Oracle says no to LibreOffice. Time to fork Java? And more.
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# Microsoft is suing Motorola over alleged Android patent infringements.
# Oracle confirmed to SJVN that it will not be working with the Document Foundation on LibreOffice.
# Sean Michael Kerner reported that Red Hat has settled an alleged patent infringement case with IP firm Acacia Research.
# Greg Luck …
[Read more]I'm the boards of two companies (Pentaho, Revolution Analytics) that are starting to see a lot of customer traction around Big Data. More and more companies in media, pharma, retail and finance are doing advanced analysis, reporting, graphing, etc with massive data sets. It made me wonder what other areas of the technology stack might evolve with the trend towards Big Data. Obviously, there's new middleware layers like Hadoop and Map Reduce, and we're also seeing the emergence of NoSQL data management layers with Cassandra, MongoDB, MemBase and others. But what …
[Read more]Last week I was working on EC2 MySQL server where one of the slave is taking lot of time to catch-up; and only job that is running on that server[...]
SugarCRM. Funding for EnterpriseDB and Morphlabs. Even more core. And more
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Bittersweet
# OStatic asked
whether SugarCRM has violated open source principles.
# Larry Augustin clarified SugarCRM’s approach to open source and openness.
# Savio Rodrigues advised anyone considering SugarCRM not to get hung-up on source code availability.
Funding round
# EnterpriseDB has reportedly
raised $7.5m of
a …
Elephants on parade: Hadoop goes mainstream. And more.
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Elephants on parade
# Cloudera launched v3 of its Distribution for Hadoop and
released v1 of
Cloudera Enterprise.
# Karmasphere released new Professional and Analyst Editions of its Hadoop development and deployment studio.
# Talend announced that its Integration Suite now offers native support for Hadoop.
# Yahoo …
[Read more]What’s missing from WebM? VoltDB launches. The importance of profitability. And more.
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# Simon Phipps examined what’s missing from WebM, from an open source perspective.
# Mike Stonebraker’s VoltDB officially launched its open source in-memory OLTP database.
# Jim Whitehurst argued that one of Red Hat’s most valuable contributions to open source is its profitability.
# Infobright appointed former Aleri CEO Don DeLoach as its new …
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