MapR and Funambol raise funding. VMware virtually supports PostgreSQL. And more.
# MapR raised $20m series B for its Hadoop distribution from Redpoint Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and NEA.
# Funambol raised $3m in funding from previous investors HIG Ventures, Pacven Walden Ventures and Nexit Infocom.
# VMware launched vFabric Postgres as part of vFabric Data Director database-as-a-service launch.
# Citrix released a new edition of CloudStack, …
[Read more]Groklaw declares victory. Cloudera updates Hadoop distro. And more.
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# Groklaw claimed victory, will stop publishing new articles on May 16.
# Cloudera released version 3 of its Hadoop distribution.
# VoltDB released version 1.3 of its open source distributed in-memory database.
# Black Duck grew sales by 51% in Q1.
# eXo and Convertigo …
[Read more]Patents! Patents! Patents! Canonical’s perfect 10. And more.
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# Google responded to Oracle’s claims that its Android OS infringes copyrights and patents related to Java.
# Matt Asay evaluated the various patent claims against Android and its related devices.
# Microsoft licensed smartphone patents from ACCESS Co and a subsidiary of Acacia Research.
# Glyn Moody …
[Read more]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]Talend raises $8m. Cisco leaves a TIP. Exit strategies. And more.
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# Talend raised $8m Series D from existing investors Balderton Capital, AGF Private Equity and Galileo Partners.
# Cisco promised to open source Telepresence Interoperability Protocol.
# Alfresco Community 3.3 included CMIS 1.0, Google Docs and IBM Lotus integration.
# Exit strategies – secrets of success for open source companies, from the Open Source Think Tank.
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[Read more]Government adoption. Financial results. New funding. And more.
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For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL but were afraid to ask
Government approval
The US Department of Defense issued guidance on the adoption of open source
software, while ComputerWorld reported that the U.S Department of Defense has
open-sourced an …
Red Hat invests in EnterpriseDB. The White House goes open source. And more.
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# EnterpriseDB confirmed Red Hat investment, partnership.
# Whitehouse.gov migrated to Drupal, as well as …
[Read more]Intalio acquires Jetty. Red Hat updates JBoss platform. $12m funding for Medsphere. And more.
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# Intalio acquired Webtide, developer of Jetty application server.
# Red Hat delivered JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0, as well as JBoss Operations Network (ON) 2.3 and launched Catalyst partner program.
# Medsphere raised $12m to support ongoing development and expansion in open source health IT.
…[Read more]I just noticed that Sun/MySQL has dropped SCO OpenServer from its list of supported operating systems for MySQL 5.1 and higher (along with Mac OS X 10.3 and QNX).
It is not a massive surprise to see MySQL doing this given SCO’s current position but MySQL teamed up with SCO in the midst of its controversial legal claims against IBM et al, so I thought the end of the deal warranted a quick mention.
At the time Marten Mickos defended the deal by claiming that he hoped working with MySQL would educate SCO’s executives:
“In a partnership you exchange thoughts,” he said. “If you exchange thoughts hopefully the other side will listen to you. We understand …
[Read more]SourceForge announces quarterly earnings. Linux server growth strong, says analyst firm. Talend adds support for MaxDB. (and more)
SourceForge Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2008 Results, SourceForge (Press Release)
Worldwide Server Market Shows Resiliency with Solid First Quarter Results, According to IDC, IDC (Press Release)
Talend Announces Data Integration for MaxDB, Talend (Press Release)
How everyone wins with open source software, Linux.com, Lisa Hoover (Article)
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