Red Hat acquires Gluster. Adobe acquires PhoneGap. Oracle does Hadoop. And more.
# Red Hat agreed to acquire Gluster for approximately $136m in cash. Red Hat CTO Crian Steven explained why.
# Adobe announced its agreement to acquire Nitobi, creator of PhoneGap.
# Oracle unveiled its Oracle Big Data Appliance, including Apache Hadoop and Oracle NoSQL database.
# ODF 1.2 has been approved as an OASIS …
[Read more]Apache OpenOffice.org proposal approved. SkySQL Tekes new funding. And more.
# The proposal for OpenOffice.org to become an Apache incubator project was unanimously approved.
# Rob Weir discussed how the relationship between OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice need not be a zero-sum game.
# Simon Phipps offered his thoughts on the potential positive and negative outcomes.
# Tekes, the main public funding agency for research, development, and innovation in Finland, …
[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]SugarCRM. Funding for EnterpriseDB and Morphlabs. Even more core. And more
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Bittersweet
# OStatic asked
whether SugarCRM has violated open source principles.
# Larry Augustin clarified SugarCRM’s approach to open source and openness.
# Savio Rodrigues advised anyone considering SugarCRM not to get hung-up on source code availability.
Funding round
# EnterpriseDB has reportedly
raised $7.5m of
a …
I like both Adobe (Lightroom rocks!) and Apple (iPad rocks!), but I’ve been asked over and over again what I think about Apple’s new 3.3.1 policy. You know, the one that basically bans cross-platform development frameworks. And, in particular, basically nails the Flash coffin shut on iPhone/iPod/iPad. So, what do I think?
I love it.
And I’m surprised more developers, end users, business leaders, and general web standards lovers everywhere aren’t posting about how great this is.
It’s good for end users.
The App Store already has a signal-to-noise problem. With hundreds of thousands of apps, finding the good stuff is tough. Bear in mind that every single one of those Apps was built by someone intentionally designing for these devices – and we’ve still got plenty of …
[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 …
Background Knowledge
I have Windows Vista with Adobe Acrobat Professional v8.1.3 installed and I was trying to covert to Adobe PDF within Microsoft Publisher 2007.
Error Message
Acrobat PDFMaker reported the following error message dialog, “Adobe PDF Printer is not bound to Adobe PDF Port. Cannot proceed further. Kindly change the PDF Port to Adobe PDF Port in Adobe PDF Printer Settings”.
Red Hat increases its service levels. Linux Foundation appoints Ted Ts’o CTO. Sun delivers VirtualBox update. Novell cancels BrainShare. BBC enables iPlayer for Linux. And more.
Note: This is the last 451 CAOS Links post of 2008. We’ll be back with a bumper holiday special on January 2. Happy holidays!
Official announcements
Red Hat Increases Service Levels and Reduces Costs
for Customers with Extended Update Support Red Hat
Linux Foundation Appoints Ted Ts’o to Position of Chief Technology Officer Linux Foundation
…
[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]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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