Appcelerator raises $15m. Hortonworks launches Data Platform. And more.
# Appcelerator raised $15m in a third round led by Mayfield Fund, Translink Capital and Red Hat.
# Modo Labs closed a $4m investment from Storm Ventures and New Magellan Ventures.
# Hortonworks launched its Hortonworks Data Platform Apache Hadoop distribution, as well as a new partner program. Eric Baldeschwieler put the …
[Read more]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]This is the story of a tweet...
Last week Adam went to QCon San Francisco to talk about "The Road Ahead for Java". Adam covered the Java SE Strategy, presented by Oracle at JavaOne via a PR, keynotes and sessions like S319476 by Paul and Henrik. The relevant section from the PR is:
The Oracle JDK and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) will continue to be available as free downloads, with no changes to the existing licensing models.
Premium offerings such as JRockit Mission Control, JRockit Real Time, Java for …
[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]The ASF threatens to withdraw from the JCP. The demise of the Symbian Foundation. And more.
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# The Apache Software Foundation said it will terminate its relationship with the JCP if its rights are not upheld.
# The Symbian Foundation is no more. It will transition to become a licensing operation for the Symbian OS.
# Gluster raised $8.5m series B funding from Index Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners.
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[Read more]Earlier this week I posted how OpenJDK was knock, knock, knockin' on Lenny's door. At that time I also mentioned how it was already in Ubuntu and Fedora.
What I failed to mention, however, and was right under my very nose was that fact that OpenJDK had already made it into OpenSUSE 11. Thanks to MySQL Euro-community manager and former SUSE employee Lenz Grimmer, I was …
[Read more]Earlier this week I posted how OpenJDK was knock, knock, knockin' on Lenny's door. At that time I also mentioned how it was already in Ubuntu and Fedora.
What I failed to mention, however, and was right under my very nose was that fact that OpenJDK had already made it into OpenSUSE 11. Thanks to MySQL Euro-community manager and former SUSE employee Lenz Grimmer, I was …
[Read more]Earlier this week I posted how OpenJDK was knock, knock, knockin' on Lenny's door. At that time I also mentioned how it was already in Ubuntu and Fedora.
What I failed to mention, however, and was right under my very nose was that fact that OpenJDK had already made it into OpenSUSE 11. Thanks to MySQL Euro-community manager and former SUSE employee Lenz Grimmer, I was …
[Read more]Below are a few more pictures from the Red Hat Summit and FUDCon last week.
Just to keep you comin' back for more, below is the list of podcasts from the events that I will be posting in upcoming days:
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Below are a few more pictures from the Red Hat Summit and FUDCon last week.
Just to keep you comin' back for more, below is the list of podcasts from the events that I will be posting in upcoming days:
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Podcasts to come/Posted