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]Microsoft: “more than half your Android devices are belong to us”. And more
# Microsoft claimed that more than half of the world’s ODM industry for Android and Chrome devices is now under license to Microsoft’s patent portfolio following its agreement with Compal Electronics.
# Hadapt expanded its board of directors and confirmed its $9.5m series A funding round.
# Appcelerator entered into an agreement …
[Read more]Microsoft’s Android revenue. Tizen formation. And more.
# As Microsoft announced its latest Android-related patent agreement with Samsun, Goldman Sachs estimated that the company will make $444m in revenue from Android patent deals for fiscal year 2012.
# LiMo Foundation and The Linux Foundation announced the formation of Tizen to develop a Linux-based device software platform.
# Karmasphere raised $6m in a series B round …
[Read more]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]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]DoJ/FCO says aye CPTN. Canonical readies Ubuntu 11.04. And more.
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# Novell-CPTN patent sale agreed by DoJ/FCO, subject to the patents being licensed to OIN.
# VMware reported net income of $126m in Q1 on revenue up 33% to $844m.
# Canonical previewed Ubuntu 11.04, featuring Unity and also Ubuntu Server 11.04.
# The Open Invention Network …
[Read more]Paranoid Android. Canonical and Gnome. A new OSI. And more.
Paranoid Android
If you are interested in the potential violation of the GPL by
the Android kernel you have probably already immersed yourself in
the numerous blog posts published on the topic. If not, start
with Sean Hogle’s analysis or Bradley M Kuhn’s overview of the original allegations and work
backwards from there, not forgetting a detour for the obligatory Microsoft connection. Linus
Torvalds said
claim “seems totally bogus”. In the meantime, Microsoft …
Elephants on parade: Hadoop goes mainstream. And more.
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Elephants on parade
# Cloudera launched v3 of its Distribution for Hadoop and
released v1 of
Cloudera Enterprise.
# Karmasphere released new Professional and Analyst Editions of its Hadoop development and deployment studio.
# Talend announced that its Integration Suite now offers native support for Hadoop.
# Yahoo …
[Read more]Perspectives on the IBM patent hoo-ha. Karmasphere lands funding. And more.
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# IBM denied breaking its open source patent promise, claimed TurboHercules a member of organizations founded and funded by Microsoft, other competitors. Perspectives on the IBM patent hoo-ha: Florian Mueller, Simon Phipps, Matt Asay, Jim Zemlin, Eric Raymond.
# Oracle will …
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