Congratulations to the Drupal community for getting version 7.0 released! This is a major mile stone and an excellent reason to celebrate!
If you want to give Drupal 7 a try without having to install anything, I've now updated my Drupal 7 appliances on SuSE Studio to the latest release. The appliance is based on openSUSE Linux 11.3 and is available in two variants:
CPTN Holdings unmasked. Oracle updates MySQL. And more.
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# Florian Mueller reported that the Novell patent acquiring CPTN Holdings is Microsoft, Apple, EMC and Oracle.
# The VAR Guy told the (previously) untold story of Novell’s sale to Attachmate.
# Attachmate committed to support the existing roadmaps and release schedules for Novell and SUSE products.
# Oracle …
[Read more]Just as a friendly reminder about what I wrote a month ago: we've already received a number of great talk submissions for the MySQL & Friends Developer Room at FOSDEM 2011, thanks to everyone who contributed so far! However, we still are looking for some more!
You can submit your proposal via this form. The deadline for turning in your talk is Sunday, 26th of December, 2010.
Just to recapitulate, the DevRoom (H.2213) will be available to us on …
[Read more]The future of Java. Google releases Gingerbread. And more.
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# The Register reported, and Oracle later confirmed, that Oracle’s proposed roadmap for Java 7 and 8 has been accepted.
# Stephen Colebourne provided more details on the results of the vote on Java 7 and Java 8.
# Google introduced the Nexus-S with Android Gingerbread. …
[Read more]New CEOs for Funambol and Openbravo. Funding for 10gen. And more.
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# Funambol appointed Amit Chawla as its new CEO.
# Openbravo appointed Paolo Juvara as its new CEO and raised a new funding round.
# 10gen raised $6.5m in third-round funding led by Sequoia Capital.
# Microsoft has reportedly invested an undisclosed sum in TurboHercules.
# …
[Read more]I've been going through our bugs database to compile a list of some noteworthy patch contributions that have been included in the MySQL 5.5 release. Of course any contribution is appreciated, no matter how small! And the list is probably not complete — please let me know if I'm missing any. I omitted a number of smaller patches that fixed compile issues and I only considered contributions that were tracked in our bug database and were tagged as "Contribution".
Note that these are new patches that have not been part of any other MySQL release — of course, all contributions from previous releases are included in 5.5 as well. We also received a few patches for InnoDB (particularly by Mark Callaghan and his team mates at Google/Facebook), which were incorporated in the InnoDB plugin in MySQL 5.1 (and …
[Read more]Topics for this podcast:
*Our latest CAOS Special Report – Control and Community
*Red Hat releases RHEL 6
*Symbian and Oracle highlight community challenges
*The latest on government adoption of OSS from GOSCON
*Open core issue continues, now with Linux and evil twins
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Talend raises $34m, acquires Sopera. Red Hat releases RHEL 6. And more.
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# Talend raised $34m funding and acquired Sopera.
# Twilio raised $12m in series B funding.
# Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
# Savio Rodrigues noted a change in emphasis from Red Hat to focus on value, rather than cost.
# Joyent officially …
[Read more]The Apache Software Foundation’s latest statement on the Java Community Process highlights continued dissatisfaction and dissent from Oracle’s stewardship and involvement in open source software.
This comes after some ups and downs for Oracle and its oversight of Java and other open source software that was previously under the auspices of Sun Microsystems. Oracle started off on a rough path when it sued Google over its implementation of Java in Android without preemptively or clearly stating that it was not attacking open source. At about the same time, it let OpenSolaris die a slow, somewhat confusing death. …
[Read more]Or, how we evaluate a company’s open source-related business strategy.
Godwin’s law states: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches”.
An online discussion about open source-related business strategies is no exception. However, long before the Nazi comparison it is inevitable that someone will ask “is MySQL open core?”.
I updated our 2009 post “what is open core, and what isn’t” recently, and received some criticism of my statement that the MySQL strategy was not open core.
Since we have recently published a report including the results of our …
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