Red Hat revenue up 28% in Q2. Funding for NoSQL vendors. And more.
# Red Hat reported net income of $40m in the second quarter on revenue up 28% to $281.3m.
# 10gen raised $20m in funding, while DataStax closed an $11m series B round, while also releasing its DataStax Enterprise and Community products. Additionally Neo Technology …
[Read more]Groklaw declares victory. Cloudera updates Hadoop distro. And more.
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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.
# eXo and Convertigo …
[Read more]Marten Mickos joins Eucalyptus. Novell rejects Elliot. Perspectives on OSBC. And more.
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# Mårten Mickos was named CEO of Eucalyptus Systems.
# Novell’s board rejected Elliot’s takeover proposal as inadequate, will review other alternatives.
# North Bridge Venture Partners published the results of its Future of Open Source survey.
# Rob Bearden was appointed executive chairman of the board of Pentaho.
# The Eclipse Foundation …
[Read more]Ken Jacobs departs Oracle. Linus loves his Nexus One. And more.
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# As Matt Asay noted, Ken Jacobs’ departure from Oracle is a significant loss for MySQL.
# Linus Toravlds gave the Nexus One his personal thumbs-up.
# Glyn Moody outlined the H.264 video standards debate.
# Oracle job cuts affect GNOME accessibility work but, as Joe Brockmeier pointed out, the blame lies with everyone.
# SourceForge project administrators …
[Read more]Red Hat betas Enterprise Virtualization, partners with HP for SOA. And more.
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# Red Hat announced that its Enterprise Virtualization portfolio of products is now available for beta testing.
# Red Hat collaborated with HP on SOA.
# David Megginson published mixing GPL and non-GPL: a different perspective. A new take on the MySQL/MariaDB storage engine debate.
# UK Government CIO shed some light on “G-Cloud” plans and how the new open source policy provides an opportunity.
# WAZI: …
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