Engine Yard acquires Orchestra. Red Hat considers NoSQL move. And more.
# Engine Yard announced a definitive agreement to acquire Orchestra, bringing PHP expertise to the Engine Yard platform.
# Red Hat’s CEO indicated the company is interested in a NoSQL or Hadoop acquisition.
# Gluster announced Apache Hadoop compatibility in the next GlusterFS release.
# Microsoft signed an agreement with China Standard Software Co (CS2C) to …
[Read more]The ASF threatens to withdraw from the JCP. The demise of the Symbian Foundation. And more.
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# The Apache Software Foundation said it will terminate its relationship with the JCP if its rights are not upheld.
# The Symbian Foundation is no more. It will transition to become a licensing operation for the Symbian OS.
# Gluster raised $8.5m series B funding from Index Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners.
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[Read more]The future of the JCP. A new Mozilla CEO. And more.
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# Mike Milinkovich explained why the Eclipse Foundation will support Oracle’s plans for Java 7, and outlined its concerns about the Java 8 JSR.
# Stephen Colebourne outlined the choices facing Java Community Process executive committee voters: pragmatism or bust, before later proposing a third option: a split in the …
[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]Funding for Engine Yard and DataSync. Red Hat and Microsoft joint support. And more.
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# Engine Yard raised $19m in Series C funding from the likes of Benchmark, DAG, Presidio and Amazon.
# Red Hat and Microsoft are now providing joint support for virtualization interoperability options.
# DataSync raised $1.2m and announced a partnership with SugarCRM.
# Simon Phipps began building a scorecard to …
[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.
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[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
Mass High Tech …
Cloudera lands funding. SourceForge acquires Ohloh. Novell reports Linux growth. And more.
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Cloudera shows signs of progress
GigaOM reported
that Cloudera raised $6m Series B funding from Accel and Greylock
and is now looking beyond web applications to wider
enterprise adoption of Hadoop. Cloudera also announced its first
certification program for Hadoop.
Open source goes mainstream in the UK
There have been signs of change recently with regards to open
source adoption in the UK, which has traditionally lagged behind
the rest of Europe and the US. CBR Magazine provided an analysis of …
Javier Soltero, former CEO of Hyperic, has maintained that the sale of Hyperic to SpringSource was driven by discussion between himself and SpringSource CEO, Rod Johnson, but the fact that the companies shared investors - Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital - no doubt accelerated the deal (and I wonder whether either could have afforded to acquire the other without shared investors).
When examining the open source vendor landscape it is tempting to imagine that the combined total could be bigger than the sum of its parts - that a combination of many open source product specialists could mount a challenge to Red Hat and Sun to claim the title of biggest open source software vendor.
Benchmark and Accel are among …
[Read more]Red Hat’s chairman wins enterprising award. Sun updates StarOffice. Barracuda Networks acquires 3SP. Reaction to Sun’s reorganization. Barack Obama’s laptop. And more.
Press releases
Red Hat, Inc.’s Matthew Szulik Named Ernst &
Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2008 Overall National Winner
Ernst & Young
Ingres Launches Ingres Database 9.2 Ingres
Sun Microsystems Unveils StarOffice 9 Software Sun Microsystems
Red Hat Increases Authorization to Repurchase Common Stock Red …
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