Rapid7 secures new funding. Microsoft drops Dryad. And more.
# Rapid7 secured $50m in series C funding.
# Microsoft confirmed that it is ditching its Dryad project in favour of Apache Hadoop.
# Arun Murthy provided more details of Apache Hadop 0.23.
# The Google Plugin for Eclipse and GWT Designer projects are now fully open source.
# openSUSE released version 12.1.
…[Read more]DOCOMO adopts, invests in Couchbase. Apache Cassandra reaches 1.0. And more.
# DOCOMO Innovations adopted Couchbase as DOCOMO Capital invested in the NoSQL database vendor.
# The Apache Software Foundation announced Apache Cassandra v1.0.
# Nuxeo announced the availability of Nuxeo Cloud.
# SGI formed a distribution relationship with Cloudera and …
[Read more]Engine Yard acquires Orchestra. Red Hat considers NoSQL move. And more.
# Engine Yard announced a definitive agreement to acquire Orchestra, bringing PHP expertise to the Engine Yard platform.
# Red Hat’s CEO indicated the company is interested in a NoSQL or Hadoop acquisition.
# Gluster announced Apache Hadoop compatibility in the next GlusterFS release.
# Microsoft signed an agreement with China Standard Software Co (CS2C) to …
[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.
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[Read more]The future of MySQL. The SCO Group terminates Darl McBride. And more.
The future of MySQL
Monty Widenius urged Oracle to give up on MySQL in order to
land Sun while Richard Stallman, Knowledge Ecology International
(KEI) and the Open Rights Group sent a letter to the
EC urging it to block Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL. All of which
prompted Florian Mueller, who it should be noted is working with
Widenius as part of his campaign, to claim that there is growing public opposition to
Oracle owning Sun’s MySQL.
Meanwhile The VAR Guy reported on rumours that …
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