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]Linuxtag is likely one of the oldest and largest Linux/OSS events in Germany. I remember having been there to represent SuSE Linux while it still took place at the University of Kaiserslautern, using tables and chairs from the lecture rooms as exhibition stands (this must have been around 1998 or 1999). This year it will take place in Berlin again, and the session schedule looks very promising. I'll be there from Wednesday till Friday and I feel that I will have a hard time deciding which presentations I should attend...
I'll be speaking about What's new in MySQL 5.5 on Friday, 13th of May, at 15:00. If you haven't updated to MySQL 5.5 yet, stop by to hear what new …
[Read more]DoJ/FCO says aye CPTN. Canonical readies Ubuntu 11.04. And more.
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# Novell-CPTN patent sale agreed by DoJ/FCO, subject to the patents being licensed to OIN.
# VMware reported net income of $126m in Q1 on revenue up 33% to $844m.
# Canonical previewed Ubuntu 11.04, featuring Unity and also Ubuntu Server 11.04.
# The Open Invention Network …
[Read more]Oracle announced on Friday that it is to discontinue its commercial interest in the OpenOffice.org project, prompting a barrage of criticism from the open source faithful with regards to its approach to the open source applications project, and community in general.
The company was accused of being community-hostile, for example, and comparisons were also made to Colonel Gadhafi, while a translation of the press release into “plain English” apparently shed new light on the announcement.
In truth though, the language …
[Read more]The 451 Group’s new long format report on emerging database alternatives, NoSQL, NewSQL and Beyond, is now available.
The report examines the changing database landscape, investigating how the failure of existing suppliers to meet the performance, scalability and flexibility needs of large-scale data processing has led to the development and adoption of alternative data management technologies.
Specifically, the report covers:
VMware launches Cloud Foundry. Red Hat heads for Ceylon. And more.
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# VMware launched Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-service and open source project.
# Red Hat’s Gavin King revealed details of the company’s Ceylon project.
# Red Hat submitted a number of specification requests for Java EE 7.
# Terracotta accused Red Hat of “trying to pull a fast …
[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]Time is flying by so fast, it sure doesn’t seem like it was last year I was blogging about how Android is for real. Well, let me reiterate … Android is for real. The reason I say that and stress that is despite its success, we see a variety of legal threats, accusations and actual lawsuits to come flying at Android as fast as it is growing in the market.
Still, we seem to be able to fairly easily find agreement among vendors, developers and users that Android development is not slowing down, that legal maneuvering will not pave a path to success or that any ruling or action will take Android-based phones out of consumers’ hands. This is not to say that Android faces significant challenges: real fragmentation and version overload; a software development pace that may be too fast for handset makers or consumers; innovation from rivals …
[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]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 …