Red Hat acquires Gluster. Adobe acquires PhoneGap. Oracle does Hadoop. And more.
# Red Hat agreed to acquire Gluster for approximately $136m in cash. Red Hat CTO Crian Steven explained why.
# Adobe announced its agreement to acquire Nitobi, creator of PhoneGap.
# Oracle unveiled its Oracle Big Data Appliance, including Apache Hadoop and Oracle NoSQL database.
# ODF 1.2 has been approved as an OASIS …
[Read more]Alfresco launches Activiti project. Funding for NorthScale and Zend. And more.
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# Alfresco launched the Apache-licensed Activiti BPM project, led by Tom Baeyens and Joram Barrez.
# NorthScale announced $10m in series B funding, led by the Mayfield Fund, and a new CEO.
# Zend Technologies raised $9m led by Greylock Partners with participation its existing investors.
# Stephen Walli joined the CodePlex Foundation as its technical director. …
[Read more]Last month cloud computing and systems management expert John Willis published his best of Cloud Computing for 2009 list he calls the Cloudies. I am not an expert on the latest developments in cloud computing so it was nice to get a list of the best (in his expert opinion) cloud computing tools. I was especially interested in the latest open source software and I did a little research on each of these projects to see if they had active development mailing lists, regular releases and a real community behind …
[Read more]Intuit launches open source project. SFLC on Microsoft GPL violation accusations.
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# Intuit launched open source projects and community to develop apps based on its Intuit Partner Platform, while Savio Rodrigues declared Intuit’s open source play is all business.
# SFLC’s Bradley Kuhn told SDTimes Microsoft was in violation of the GPL.
# MySQL and Memcached-based appliance vendor Schooner Info Tech has raised $20m in Series B funding.
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