Cloudera raises $40m. Accel announces $100m fund. Rackspace takes OpenStack private. And more.
# Cloudera raised $40m in series D funding and announced a partnership with NetApp around its NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop.
# Accel Partners launched a $100m Big Data Fund to invest in Hadoop- and NoSQL-related vendors.
# Rackspace …
[Read more]Patents! Patents! Patents! Canonical’s perfect 10. And more.
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# Google responded to Oracle’s claims that its Android OS infringes copyrights and patents related to Java.
# Matt Asay evaluated the various patent claims against Android and its related devices.
# Microsoft licensed smartphone patents from ACCESS Co and a subsidiary of Acacia Research.
# Glyn Moody …
[Read more]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]Updating the MPL. Funding for Lucid and eXo. StatusNet. And more.
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Updating the MPL
# ZDnet reported that the 10-year-old Mozilla Public
License will be updated by the end of 2010, while Mitchell Baker
explained the
process.
Funding for Lucid and eXo
# Lucid Imagination raised $10m in series B funding from Shasta
Ventures, Granite Ventures and Walden International.
# eXo Platform raised $6m from Auriga …
[Read more]Oracle closes Sun acquisition. The state of the union at Red Hat. And more.
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# Oracle has completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
# Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst discussed the current State of the Union at Red Hat.
# Oracle told eWeek Java will be “business as usual”.
# CNet published Scott McNealy’s farewell email to Sun employees.
# The WSJ reported that Larry Ellison …
[Read more]Google unveils the Nexus One. RMS explains his position on dual licensing. And more.
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# 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]Larry Augustin confirmed as SugarCRM CEO. Red Hat’s Fedora Project is 12. And more.
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# Larry Augustin was confirmed as full-time CEO of SugarCRM.
# Red Hat, by way of the Fedora Project, announced the launch of Fedora 12.
# Microsoft is to …
[Read more]Governments. Governance. Customers wins. And more.
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Governments
The Examiner provided a two part interview with Daniel Risascher, Office of
the CIO, Department of Defense, on open source at the DoD, while
Government Technology Magazine reported on how open source software and cloud
computing can save government money. Similarly, The UK
Conservative party delivered a paper on the future of open standards,
open source, SOA and cloud for UK Government, while it was
reported that Vienna to …