I’m at OSCON this week. Come say hi and talk Drizzle, Rackspace, cloud, photography, vegan food or brewing.
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Jul
20
2010
Jun
28
2010
A longer version of this story is published at www.opensources.com
Last week, Barnes & Noble announced they would cut the price on their wireless Nook eReader, from $259 to $199 ($149 for a new WiFi-only edition.) Many thought this was a good opportunity for the third place contender to gain market share. But within a few hours Amazon beat Barnes & Noble's price by $10, marking down the Kindle …
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May
18
2010
Alfresco launches Activiti project. Funding for NorthScale and Zend. And more.
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# Alfresco launched the Apache-licensed Activiti BPM project, led by Tom Baeyens and Joram Barrez.
# NorthScale announced $10m in series B funding, led by the Mayfield Fund, and a new CEO.
# Zend Technologies raised $9m led by Greylock Partners with participation its existing investors.
# Stephen Walli joined the CodePlex Foundation as its technical director. …
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Apr
25
2010
Financial services on the go - GlassFish for Fundamo and
profit
Alexis recently published a new Adoption Story
on how Fundamo uses GlassFish v2 and OpenMQ for its
Enterprise Platform. Overview at stories entry, details in questionnaire, and an overview in this earlier
short video interview.
We are always interested in more GlassFish adoption stories, both from
(non-paying) users and from (paying) customers. …
Apr
22
2010
Oracle managed to score a major victory last week at the MySQL
Conference by announcing performance gains of 200-360% in the
forthcoming version 5.5. This is a tremendous
improvement and comes in part due to closer collaboration between
what were historically two distinct (and occasionally
competitive) groups: the InnoBase team and the MySQL Server
team. Bringing the InnoBase team under the direction of the
MySQL Server team under Tomas Ullin is a great benefit not only
to MySQL developers, but also for MySQL users. No doubt
these performance gains are a result of many months of hard work
by not only Tomas, but also a good number of folks on both teams
including guys like Mikael Ronstrum, Kojstja, Calvin Sun and
others.
Reaction to the new release has been positive in the community
from the likes of …
Apr
16
2010
Topics for this podcast:
*The latest in VC funding for open source
*VMware’s SpringSource buys cloud messenger Rabbit
*Open source monitoring vendors’ key cloud partnershps
*Oracle moves ahead, back on MySQL, OpenSolaris
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Mar
14
2010
Adrian has talked about a few of us Drizzle Hackers joining Rackspace over at the Rackspace Cloud Blog.
Feb
24
2010
It is a pleasure to announce that Kontrollbase – the MySQL analytics and performance monitoring webapp for MySQL servers – has a new sponsor. Network Redux is located in Portland, Oregon and offers enterprise quality dedicated and managed hosting as well as cloud services. Thomas Brenneke contacted me to discuss his interest in utilizing the [...]
Jan
21
2010
EC approves Oracle-Sun. Google patents MapReduce. And more.
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EC approves Oracle-Sun
The European Commission cleared Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun
Microsystems. While Larry Ellison is set to unveil Oracle’s
Sun strategy on January 27th, Monty Widenius said he will go to the
Court of First Instance to appeal the decision.
# Pro-open source political party formed in Hungary.
# Google …
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Jan
13
2010
Oracle, after dating HP, Dell, Netapp and EMC has found its mate
in Sun. Oracle is now becoming a systems company, and unceremoniously dumping
these former paramours. These leaves the spurned lovers to find
alternate accommodations, especially in the area of the
database.
As I have stated previously on this blog, the clear partner of
choice on the Windows front is Microsoft. This is demonstrated by
today’s partner announcement around MS SQL Server for
OLTP. But who is their partner in the Linux segment?
The following are contenders:
* Postgres (HP rolls their own)
* EnterpriseDB (pre-rolled Postgres)
* Ingres or Sybase—Oracle has felled them both in the past, …