Apache OpenOffice.org proposal approved. SkySQL Tekes new funding. And more.
# The proposal for OpenOffice.org to become an Apache incubator project was unanimously approved.
# Rob Weir discussed how the relationship between OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice need not be a zero-sum game.
# Simon Phipps offered his thoughts on the potential positive and negative outcomes.
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[Read more]600 new customers for SugarCRM. James Gosling leaves Oracle. And more.
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# SugarCRM added nearly 600 customers in the first quarter of 2010.
# James Gosling resigned from Oracle.
# VMware’s SpringSource acquired Rabbit Technologies and its RabbitMQ messaging software.
# EnterpriseDB hired Sun’s former MySQL VP Karen Tegan Padir as vice president of products and marketing.
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[Read more]Funambol acquires Zapatec. Open source gains Closure. And more.
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# Funambol acquired Zapatec, an AJAX web 2.0 frameworks vendor.
# The top ten issues facing open source users, according to Mark Radcliffe.
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[Read more]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 …
Cloudera lands funding. SourceForge acquires Ohloh. Novell reports Linux growth. And more.
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Cloudera shows signs of progress
GigaOM reported
that Cloudera raised $6m Series B funding from Accel and Greylock
and is now looking beyond web applications to wider
enterprise adoption of Hadoop. Cloudera also announced its first
certification program for Hadoop.
Open source goes mainstream in the UK
There have been signs of change recently with regards to open
source adoption in the UK, which has traditionally lagged behind
the rest of Europe and the US. CBR Magazine provided an analysis of …
The open source vendor definition debate rumbles on. How open source could save the US government $3.7bn. Red Hat plans MASS migration to JBoss. Open source content management invades the US. Exploiting the attribution loophole in the GPLv3. And more.
Definition debate rumbles on
Roberto Galoppini joined the open source vendor definition
debate, with a perspective looking at the impact on community
engagement, and also caught up with David Dennis, senior director
of product marketing at Groundwork, about the company’s strategy,
noting that not all open source core vendors are created equal.
Meanwhile Tarus Balog of OpenNMS, who …
[Read more]Reaction to Marten Mickos’s departure from Sun. On open letter to President Obama. Lots of announcements from Sun, the LIMO Foundation and WS02. Mozilla offers to help EC investigation of Microsoft. Black Duck raises funding and gets a new CEO. The state of Red Hat. And more.
Mickos fallout
Kaj Arno maintained that “MySQL’s culture and business
philosophy will live on in Sun.” He added: “In fact, you could
say MySQL now becomes mainstream at Sun. Former MySQLers continue
in key positions, in some cases with a mandate to generalise and
apply MySQL related learnings on other open source products.”
For example, Charles Babcock …
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