Novell has announced Service Pack 1 for SUSE Linux Enterprise. LINBIT is a key contributor to this release, delivering DRBD and a number or cluster resource agents as part of Novell’s SLE High Availability Extension add-on.
This puts Novell firmly ahead of competitor Red Hat in terms of currently released and supported HA clustering solutions. In case you haven’t noticed, Red Hat is also being questioned by customers for not shipping DRBD at this time, …
[Read more]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. …
[Read more]So it seems Red Hat is a bit surprised (I’m not) by the number of subscribers on the “DRBD in RHEL 6, please” bug tripling in a couple of days. I guess they are also getting a few more tweets than usual about this.
But please, Red Hat’s EMEA Chief Supreme Open Source Evangelist saying “DRBD is limited with regard to integration with [Red Hat] Cluster”? Give me a break. I wrote the Red Hat Cluster Suite integration for DRBD. Lon Hohberger merged it almost a year ago. …
[Read more]Most database companies would be proud to say that their products perform optimally out of the box. It means they accomplished a Herculean feat of engineering. But most databases have configuration options because this is almost impossible. For example, MySQL has scores of tuning options, and it needs a lot more.
So when someone benchmarks your database and makes you look bad, usually you can say “that benchmark was run by someone who doesn’t know how to properly tune my database software.”
But what if the benchmarker claims that your database didn’t need to be tuned, (via Dave Page), because it’s optimal out of the box? Do you accept the benchmark results, or reject the compliment?
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The folks over at Red Hat were kind enough to make public bug 585309, an enhancement request to include DRBD in RHEL 6. If you want DRBD on the last major platform that doesn’t include it yet, feel free to comment and make your voice heard!
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[Read more]VMware and Salesforce.com launch VMforce. Red Hat provides Cloud Access. And more.
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# VMware and Salesforce.com launched VMforce, a platform for developing and deploying Java cloud applications.
# Red Hat Cloud Access enables enterprises to use their Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription on Amazon Web Services.
# Canonical announced Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition, Desktop Edition and ISV support.
…[Read more]The White House contributes to OSS. Growth for Pentaho and MuleSoft. And more.
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# The White House released some of the custom code it has developed for whitehouse.gov as open source.
# Pentaho reported 229% bookings growth and 177% Enterprise Edition customer growth in Q2.
# MuleSoft grew bookings by 140% in Q1.
# The beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now available, without Xen.
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Marten Mickos joins Eucalyptus. Novell rejects Elliot. Perspectives on OSBC. And more.
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# Mårten Mickos was named CEO of Eucalyptus Systems.
# Novell’s board rejected Elliot’s takeover proposal as inadequate, will review other alternatives.
# North Bridge Venture Partners published the results of its Future of Open Source survey.
# Rob Bearden was appointed executive chairman of the board of Pentaho.
# The Eclipse Foundation …
[Read more]Updating the MPL. Funding for Lucid and eXo. StatusNet. And more.
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Updating the MPL
# ZDnet reported that the 10-year-old Mozilla Public
License will be updated by the end of 2010, while Mitchell Baker
explained the
process.
Funding for Lucid and eXo
# Lucid Imagination raised $10m in series B funding from Shasta
Ventures, Granite Ventures and Walden International.
# eXo Platform raised $6m from Auriga …
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