Appcelerator raises $15m. Hortonworks launches Data Platform. And more.
# Appcelerator raised $15m in a third round led by Mayfield Fund, Translink Capital and Red Hat.
# Modo Labs closed a $4m investment from Storm Ventures and New Magellan Ventures.
# Hortonworks launched its Hortonworks Data Platform Apache Hadoop distribution, as well as a new partner program. Eric Baldeschwieler put the …
[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]Black Duck acquires Olliance Group. Funding for Zend and PHP Flog. And more.
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# Black Duck Software acquired Olliance Group.
# Viola Private Equity invested $7m in Zend Technologies.
# PHP Fog raised $1.8m from Madrona Venture Group, First Round Capital, Founder’s Co-op, and other angel investors.
# The proposal for CPTN Holdings to acquire Novell’s patents has …
[Read more]Updating the MPL. Funding for Lucid and eXo. StatusNet. And more.
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Updating the MPL
# ZDnet reported that the 10-year-old Mozilla Public
License will be updated by the end of 2010, while Mitchell Baker
explained the
process.
Funding for Lucid and eXo
# Lucid Imagination raised $10m in series B funding from Shasta
Ventures, Granite Ventures and Walden International.
# eXo Platform raised $6m from Auriga …
[Read more]Oracle’s plans for Sun’s OSS. The UK’s updated OSS strategy. And more.
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Oracle’s plans for Sun’s OSS
# Oracle’s MySQL strategy slide.
# eWeek reported that database thought leaders are divided on Oracle MySQL.
# Savio Rodrigues and Computerworld on Oracle’s plans for MySQL, other open source assets.
# Zack Urlocker is leaving Oracle/Sun/MySQL.
…[Read more]FSF sues Cisco for GPL violations. JasperSoft and Lucid Imagination raise funding. Sun updates OpenSolaris. WaveMaker launches IDE for the cloud. And more.
Official announcements
Free Software Foundation Files Suit Against Cisco For
GPL Violations Free Software Foundation
Jaspersoft Secures $12.5 Million in Venture Funding JasperSoft
Sound Investment Red Hat
…
[Read more]Linux Defenders formed to protect against patents. Sun adds new board members and officially announces MySQL 5.1. Microsoft releases open source content management system. Google’s secret OS? And more.
Official announcements
Open Invention Network and Partners Unveil
Landmark ‘Linux Defenders’ Program to Give the Open Source
Community Greater Freedom Open Invention Network
Sun Microsystems and Southeastern Asset Management Agree to Appoint New Independent Members to Sun’s Board of Directors Sun Microsystems
[Read more]Marketcetera obtains funding. Microsoft posts additional protocol docs. Sun announces MySQL 5.1. (and more)
Marketcetera Closes $4 Million Series A Financing Led by Shasta Ventures, Marketcetera (Press Release)
Microsoft Publicly Posts Additional Protocol Documentation, Microsoft (Press Release)
Sun Microsystems Announces MySQL 5.1, Sun Microsystems (Press Release)
Sun Celebrates Third-Party MySQL Storage Engines, Sun Microsystems (Press Release)
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[Read more]This week’s Open Source Business Conference was a strange meeting of Enterprise IT users, venture capitalists, and free software entrepreneurs. The opening keynote was delivered by Red Hat’s freshly minted CEO Jim Whitehurst who gave a very modest speech noting that while Red Hat has been a leading open source company they have not necessarily been an open source leader. Whitehurst’s presentation lacked anything especially insightful or noteworthy and he has the advantage of being the new guy so he’s off the hook for anything that might have happened before he took the job.
What is apparent Red Hat’s no longer exciting. They’ve crossed over to …
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