Shuttleworth opens a can of worms. Fedora 15. IBM commits to Hadoop. And more.
# Mark Shuttleworth shared his thoughts on companies, contributor agreements and free software, prompting responses from Simon Phipps, and Dave Neary.
# The Fedora Project launched Fedora 15.
# IBM launched a new version of its BigInsight software, based on Hadoop, committed $100m to …
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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 …
Cloudera debuts Hadoop support with $5m in funding. The financial value of open source. More patent problems for Red Hat. Government open source projects on both sides of the pond. Symbian’s release plan. And more.
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Cloudera makes it official
We previously reported the launch of Cloudera a new vendor
set up to provide support for Apache Hadoop and related projects
back in October. The company made its official debut in not-so
polite open source society with the launch of its distribution
for Hadoop and …
A bumper CAOS Links rounding up the news and views from the festive period, including: Red Hat revenue up 22% in 3Q. Alan Cox departs for Intel. Evolving open source business strategies. The commercialization opportunity around OpenOffice.org. And more.
Official announcements
Red Hat Reports Third Quarter Results Red Hat
OpenLogic Survey Highlights Enterprise Perspectives on Open Source Application Servers OpenLogic
Asianux Concludes Triumphant Year, Welcomes Fifth Member Asianux
News articles
The future of open source …