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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Oracle outlines MySQL plans. Datameer launches with Series A funding. And more.
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# Oracle confirmed InnoDB as the default MySQL storage engine, Hot Backup to become part of MySQL Enterprise and announced MySQL Cluster 7.1.
# Datameer launched Analytics Solution, which combines Hadoop with a spreadsheet interface, and also closed a $2.5m Series A round of funding from Redpoint Ventures.
# Infobright announced that it grew its customers base from 50 to …
[Read more]I caught some of the keynotes and discussion at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit today, and was particularly interested in the panel discussion on open source and cloud computing. While we are used to hearing and talking about how important open source software is to cloud computing (open source giving to cloud computing), moderator John Mark Walker posed the question of whether cloud computing gives back? The discussion also rightfully focused on openness in cloud computing, how open source might or might not translate to cloud openness and the importance of data to be open as well.
The discussion also centered on some issues regarding open standards and how open is open enough for cloud computing? …
[Read more]600 new customers for SugarCRM. James Gosling leaves Oracle. And more.
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# SugarCRM added nearly 600 customers in the first quarter of 2010.
# James Gosling resigned from Oracle.
# VMware’s SpringSource acquired Rabbit Technologies and its RabbitMQ messaging software.
# EnterpriseDB hired Sun’s former MySQL VP Karen Tegan Padir as vice president of products and marketing.
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We’re proud to announce Beta 8 of MySQL Workbench 5.2.
Since beta 7 we have fixed additional bugs as well as put in some
improvements requested by the community so we decided to pack up
another release for you to check out. This Beta includes fixes
for 35 bugs (P1 – 1, P2 – 10 , P3 – 24)
Also we have added new HUD-style (FADE IN) UI elements to show wait-times while WB is setting up connections (currentlz windows only, will be added to linux/mac in next release).
Additionally we have added Connection-/Instance-sorting, now you can go to the connection/instance manager and sort using up/down buttons.
For more on these new features check out http://wb.mysql.com
A big “thank you” to all the people who have been testing MySQL Workbench 5.2 alphas and betas and taking the time to file bugs and provide valuable feedback. We have fixed many bugs since last release and worked on some other details as …
[Read more]Today we have something to celebrate - the MySQL 5.5.4 was announced! And a huge number of performance improvement made in this version make me very happy :-))
I've got an immense pleasure to participate in this story and seek for the most optimal solutions together with all these talented engineers from MySQL/Sun/InnoDB/Oracle teams (and in few months all Oracle :-)) - and I think it was a huge step ahead to see how well we may all work together :-))
And now I'm happy to share with you my results obtained with MySQL 5.5.4 on dbSTRESS benchmark. All tests were executed on the 32cores Intel server running Fedora 10 and having 128GB RAM and absolutely fast internal SSD drives (and if from the memory I've used only 16GB for the buffer pools, the SSD drives helped a lot to reduce any dependency on the I/O activity).
Test scenario :
Quick note to let our users know that there was an XML tag closure error on the “alert_22″ subroutine in the “bin/kontroll-reporter-cli.pl” script. This does not affect the webapp portion of Kontrollbase – only reports generated via the command line reporter script. It is not a fatal error but will cause the XML file to […]
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 …
[Read more]If the recent debate about open core licensing has proven one thing, it is that the issue of combining proprietary and open source code continues to be a controversial one.
It ought to be simple: either the software meets the Open Source Definition or it does not. But it is not always easy to tell what license is being used, and in the case of software being delivered as a service, does it matter anyway?
The ability to deliver software as a hosted service enables some companies that are claimed to be 100% open source to offer customers software for which the source code is not available. Coincidentally, James Dixon has this week highlighted one …
[Read more]One of the first special reports I wrote for 451 Group was an analysis of the open source systems management vendors on the scene — GroundWork, Hyperic, Zenoss, OpenNMS Group, Nagios Enterprises and some others. These named ones are those that made it and while there was some reckoning in the market and there have been changes, it is interesting to see these players still plugging away, pushing into new markets and powering open source for systems, network and application monitoring and management, including cloud computing environments.
When acquired by SpringSource a year ago, there was some question as to the real value of open source systems monitoring and management company Hyperic, which had taken the …
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