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Topics for this podcast:
*The latest in VC funding for open source
*VMware’s SpringSource buys cloud messenger Rabbit
*Open source monitoring vendors’ key cloud partnershps
*Oracle moves ahead, back on MySQL, OpenSolaris
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Elliot offers $2bn for Novell. OSI refutes IIPA’s view on open source. And more.
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“Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have to.”
# Novell confirmed a $2bn purchase offer from Elliot Associates. Interesting perspectives on Elliot’s offer for Novell from Linuxquestions, Andy Updegrove, and Matt Asay.
# The OSI categorically rejected the IIPA’s special pleadings against open source.
[Read more...]Winning and losing with open source. Paranoid Android. And more.
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“Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have to.”
Winning and losing
Matt Asay stirred things up with his declaration that free software has lost and open source has won. Responding to Matt Asay, Glyn Moody argued that without free software, open source would lose its meaning, while Mark Stone explained that free versus open source is not black and white - it’s more complex than that.
Matt Asay later declared open source the winner again, this time as
[Read more...]Cloudera debuts Hadoop support with $5m in funding. The financial value of open source. More patent problems for Red Hat. Government open source projects on both sides of the pond. Symbian’s release plan. And more.
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Cloudera makes it official
We previously reported the launch of Cloudera a new vendor set up to provide support for Apache Hadoop and related projects back in October. The company made its official debut in not-so polite open source society with the launch of its distribution for Hadoop and
Actuate and Black Duck report on third quarter performance. Red Hat welcomes Microsoft to AMQP. Canonial launches Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition. How to pronounce my surname. And more.
Press releases
Actuate Reports Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results
Actuate
Black Duck Software Continues Phenomenal Growth in Q3 Black Duck
Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition enables mobile, flexible computing for a changing digital world Canonical
Microsoft Joins Working Group for Open Standards Messaging Software Microsoft
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