Linus announces Linux 3.0. Attachmate maintains commitment to SUSE Linux. And more.
# Linus Torvalds announced the release candidate of Linux 3.0.
# Attachmate CEO Jeff Hawn maintained that the company is committed to SUSE Linux.
# OpenX raised $20m series D funding.
# Cloudera proposed Flume as an Apache incubator project.
# Isidorey unveiled CloudSandra: a NoSQL database-as-a-service based on Apache Cassandra.
# Wayne Beaton …
[Read more]Novell sold to Attachmate. Barnes & Noble throws the book at Microsoft. And more.
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# Novell closed its acquisition by Attachmate and its patent sale to CPTN.
# Attachmate’s CEO discussed the company’s plans for SUSE Linux.
# Barnes & Noble …
[Read more]At linux.conf.au 2011 in Brisbane, I had the honor of co-presenting a talk on Rolling Your Own Cloud with SUSE’s Tim Serong. Take a look!
[Read more]Topics for this podcast:
*Oracle, Java, the Apache Software Foundation and open
source
*An update on some open source database and data management
players
*CorraTech grows with support for open source application
alternatives
*Red Hat-Makara acquisition analysis and impact
*Linux kernel report shows strong support, but what now for
Novell?
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Oracle launches Unbreakable Kernel, updates MySQL and Java plans. And more.
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# Oracle launched its Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel.
# Oracle announced the release candidate of MySQL 5.5.
# Oracle outlined its plans for Java platform. JavaWorld has the details.
# Novell and SAP have collaborated on SUSE …
[Read more]New projects. Old arguments. And more.
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New projects
# Gemini Mobile Technologies released Hibari, a new open source non-relational
database for big data.
# Lockheed Martin launched the Eureka Streams open source project for enterprise social networking.
# Sony Pictures Imageworks expanded its open source initiative with the release of OpenColorIO.
Old arguments
# Kirk Wylie discussed the …
Novell has announced Service Pack 1 for SUSE Linux Enterprise. LINBIT is a key contributor to this release, delivering DRBD and a number or cluster resource agents as part of Novell’s SLE High Availability Extension add-on.
This puts Novell firmly ahead of competitor Red Hat in terms of currently released and supported HA clustering solutions. In case you haven’t noticed, Red Hat is also being questioned by customers for not shipping DRBD at this time, …
[Read more]VMware and Salesforce.com launch VMforce. Red Hat provides Cloud Access. And more.
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# VMware and Salesforce.com launched VMforce, a platform for developing and deploying Java cloud applications.
# Red Hat Cloud Access enables enterprises to use their Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription on Amazon Web Services.
# Canonical announced Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition, Desktop Edition and ISV support.
…[Read more]The White House contributes to OSS. Growth for Pentaho and MuleSoft. And more.
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# The White House released some of the custom code it has developed for whitehouse.gov as open source.
# Pentaho reported 229% bookings growth and 177% Enterprise Edition customer growth in Q2.
# MuleSoft grew bookings by 140% in Q1.
# The beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now available, without Xen.
…
[Read more]DRBD has entered a new phase. After being developed out of tree for 9 years, and after an extended review and streamlining phase since March, Phil submitted DRBD to be merged into 2.6.32 release of the Linux mainline kernel. The submission was accepted by block layer maintainer Jens Axboe, who merged DRBD in September, then deferred to the 2.6.33 merge window, and this morning Linus …
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