Stephen O'Grady at RedMonk has launched a new Podcast called Hark. In his second episode, he and Agile programming guru Kent Beck have a thoughtful discussion around the ideas in O'Grady's book "The Software Paradox." Even though software is "eating the world" and become more widespread and strategic, its economic value appears to be declining rapidly. Certainly, we've seen a shift in the …
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May
03
2011
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 …
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Mar
08
2011
Digia gets Qt. VMware makes waves. Rackspace launches OpenStack support. And more.
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# Digia signed an agreement with Nokia to acquire the Qt commercial licensing and services business.
# VMware’s Springsource division acquired Wavemaker.
# Rackspace formally launched services and support for OpenStack via Rackspace Cloud Builders.
# Red Hat defended …
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Nov
02
2010
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 …
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Oct
31
2010
Barry Jaspan and his wife Heather spent 20 hours creating this incredible cake for Acquia's Halloween party. Creative duo! Not only did it look great, it was yummy. Trick or treat!
Oct
08
2010
Patents! Patents! Patents! Canonical’s perfect 10. And more.
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# Google responded to Oracle’s claims that its Android OS infringes copyrights and patents related to Java.
# Matt Asay evaluated the various patent claims against Android and its related devices.
# Microsoft licensed smartphone patents from ACCESS Co and a subsidiary of Acacia Research.
# Glyn Moody …
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Apr
20
2010
Talend raises $8m. Cisco leaves a TIP. Exit strategies. And more.
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# Talend raised $8m Series D from existing investors Balderton Capital, AGF Private Equity and Galileo Partners.
# Cisco promised to open source Telepresence Interoperability Protocol.
# Alfresco Community 3.3 included CMIS 1.0, Google Docs and IBM Lotus integration.
# Exit strategies – secrets of success for open source companies, from the Open Source Think Tank.
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Apr
16
2010
Oracle outlines MySQL plans. Datameer launches with Series A funding. And more.
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# Oracle confirmed InnoDB as the default MySQL storage engine, Hot Backup to become part of MySQL Enterprise and announced MySQL Cluster 7.1.
# Datameer launched Analytics Solution, which combines Hadoop with a spreadsheet interface, and also closed a $2.5m Series A round of funding from Redpoint Ventures.
# Infobright announced that it grew its customers base from 50 to …
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Jan
08
2010
Google unveils the Nexus One. RMS explains his position on dual licensing. And more.
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For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL but were afraid to ask
# Google launched the Nexus One Android phone.
# Richard Stallman explained his position on selling exceptions to the GNU GPL.
# Novell’s chief technology and …
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Dec
14
2009
Lots of people writing about Snorkle again today ,Monty Says, help saving MySQL
He gives us different options, a , b or c .. but I , and some others, want an option d
No I don't trust Oracle, it's not like they have been a very good Open Source Citizen, yes they contribute to the kernel and other projects but my feeling says it's only because they have to (Kernel, Xen and others ) not because they Want to (thinking about Unfakable etc) , if they would really want to they probably would work with the CentOS community more etc, and as Monty mentions their InnoDB track record could be better.
But on the other hand I don't think the EU should block the deal because Monty wants his baby back , cheap , as honestly imvho that's what they really want, be able to buy MySQL back for a nice price, either beceause Oracle is being forced by the …
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