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]Oracle closes Sun acquisition. The state of the union at Red Hat. And more.
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# Oracle has completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
# Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst discussed the current State of the Union at Red Hat.
# Oracle told eWeek Java will be “business as usual”.
# CNet published Scott McNealy’s farewell email to Sun employees.
# The WSJ reported that Larry Ellison …
[Read more]Intuit launches open source project. SFLC on Microsoft GPL violation accusations.
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# Intuit launched open source projects and community to develop apps based on its Intuit Partner Platform, while Savio Rodrigues declared Intuit’s open source play is all business.
# SFLC’s Bradley Kuhn told SDTimes Microsoft was in violation of the GPL.
# MySQL and Memcached-based appliance vendor Schooner Info Tech has raised $20m in Series B funding.
# …
[Read more]Microsoft contributes to Linux. Acquia raises $8m. And more.
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Microsoft contributes to Linux
Microsoft announced that it is to contribute device driver
code to the Linux kernel under the GPLv2. Prompting us to publish
a CAOS Theory Q&A. Answering one questioning we failed to
ask, ZDnet reported that Microsoft’s Linux contributions
should find their way into the 2.6.32 release.
Acquia raises $8m
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Yahoo opens up Hadoop distribution. Microsoft and Novell claim customer wins. And more.
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The elephant in the room
Plenty of news emerged form the Hadoop Summit this week,
including Cloudera announced support for Amazon Elastic Block Storage
(EBS) and introduced Sqoop, open source tool for importing
databases into Hadoop, while Yahoo! Released! The! Yahoo!
Distribution! Of! Hadoop! opening up its Hadoop developments to
the wider community. As Savio Rodrigues noted, there has been a
surge in the number of contributors for the Hadoop project in the
last year.
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A busy week for Sun includes new product releases and an annual shareholders’ meeting. Microsoft tries to unseat open source with BizSpark for entrepreneurs. Who is making money from open source? Obama: Open source President? And more.
Press releases
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