A herd of Hadoop announcements. Rockmelt raises $30m. And more.
A herd of Hadoop announcements
# Yahoo! and Benchmark Capital confirmed the formation of Hortonworks, an
independent company focused on the development and support of
Apache Hadoop.
# Cloudera announced the availability of Cloudera Enterprise 3.5 and the launch of Cloudera SCM Express, based on the new Service and Configuration Manager in Cloudera Enterprise 3.5.
# MapR …
[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
a …
Funding for Eucalytus and Moodlerooms. SkySQL offers support for MySQL. And more.
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# Eucalyptus Systems raised $20m in a second round of funding led by New Enterprise Associates.
# Moodlerooms reportedly raised $7.15m in equity funding.
# SkySQL announced its intention to provide support & services for the MySQL ecosystem.
# StatusNet launched the open source StatusNet Desktop Client.
# Rhomobile …
[Read more]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 …
[Read more]Funambol acquires Zapatec. Open source gains Closure. 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
# Funambol acquired Zapatec, an AJAX web 2.0 frameworks vendor.
# The top ten issues facing open source users, according to Mark Radcliffe.
# Google …
[Read more]When open source goes bad. Is open source a success or failure? And more.
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When open source goes bad
The H reported
on the apparent turmoil at the CentOS project, while Jay Lyman
offered the CAOS perspective. Meanwhile
Slashdot reported that Alan Cox has quit as Linux TTY
subsystem maintainer.
Success or failure?
Danny Windham, Digium CEO, …
Refining the Beekeeper model. Investment opportunities. Schooner, Gear6 and Virident line up memcached appliances. The launch of the Open Source Channel Alliance. Is source code necessary? And more.
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Of bees and trees
We noted last week that James Dixon, CTO of Pentaho, had updated his Beekeeper model for understanding
the commercial-community relationships employed by vendors to
engage with open source. Roberto Galoppini quickly followed up
with some feedback, as did Tarus …