Jive goes public. webOS goes open source. Cloud Foundry goes .NET. And more.
# Jive Software started IPO at $12 a share, closing the day up nearly 30%.
# HP announced that it plans to release webOS under an open source license. Details are thin on the ground, although Fedora is reportedly an inspiration. Joel West’s post pretty much summed up my thoughts.
# Tier 3 …
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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.
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[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]Compliance. Funding. Financial results. Copyright assignment. And more.
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Compliance
# The Linux Foundation launched the Open Compliance Program, including
tools, training, and consulting.
Funding
# VentureBeat reported that Joyent has raised $7m in a
second round of funding.
# Basho Technologies secured $2m from angel investors in a Series C preferred equity financing.
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[Read more]SugarCRM. Funding for EnterpriseDB and Morphlabs. Even more core. And more
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Bittersweet
# OStatic asked
whether SugarCRM has violated open source principles.
# Larry Augustin clarified SugarCRM’s approach to open source and openness.
# Savio Rodrigues advised anyone considering SugarCRM not to get hung-up on source code availability.
Funding round
# EnterpriseDB has reportedly
raised $7.5m of
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Joyent and Sun have announced a highly tuned MySQL Accelerator that claims 2x-4x better performance than EC2 (but see comments). Joyent focuses on "Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing", with offerings on Public Cloud and the Private … |
Peter Fenton’s open source investment tips. Boxee raises $6m. And more.
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Digesting the VMware-SpringSource deal
In the wake of VMware’s acquisition of SpringSource the WSJ
examined Peter
Fenton’s open source investment portfolio and what he looks for
in an open source vendor. Meanwhile Matt Asay noted that VMware’s
purchase of SpringSource is the first big acquisition of a
company based on an Apache license, while Charles Babcock
reported …
The Joyent Accelerator for MySQL is apparently 2-4 times faster
than an EC2 instance, but there's no mention of configuration,
database size or even what the queries were in their record breaking performance tests.
I assume that Joyent has tuned their MySQL install, so it only
seems fair not to use the default configuration on the EC2 test.
If you look at Vadim's EBS benchmarks (particularly random
read/write) it looks like they may have a very good product, but
instead we're left with the impression that they have something
to hide.
1,245 transactions per second isn't very much these days if they …
Update: Sun has expanded its Cloud Computing portfolio with the recent acquisition of Qlayer, a cloud computing company that automates the deployment and management of both public and private clouds. The Q-layer organization, based in Belgium, is now part of Sun's Cloud Computing business unit which develops and integrates cloud computing technologies, architectures and services.
Cloud computing is about managing petascale data. Sun's server and storage systems can radically improve the data-intensive computing emerging in the cloud. Some clouds are closed platforms that lock you in. Sun's open source philosophy and Java principles form the core of a strategy that provides interoperability for large-scale computing resources. Sun's virtualization solutions for advanced …
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