Jive goes public. webOS goes open source. Cloud Foundry goes .NET. And more.
# Jive Software started IPO at $12 a share, closing the day up nearly 30%.
# HP announced that it plans to release webOS under an open source license. Details are thin on the ground, although Fedora is reportedly an inspiration. Joel West’s post pretty much summed up my thoughts.
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[Read more]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]EMC launches Greenplum HD. DataStax releases Brisk. And more.
# EMC launched its Greenplum HD Hadoop distribution, with the support of Jaspersoft, Pentaho, and SnapLogic, among others.
# DataStax …
[Read more]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]DoJ/FCO says aye CPTN. Canonical readies Ubuntu 11.04. And more.
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# Novell-CPTN patent sale agreed by DoJ/FCO, subject to the patents being licensed to OIN.
# VMware reported net income of $126m in Q1 on revenue up 33% to $844m.
# Canonical previewed Ubuntu 11.04, featuring Unity and also Ubuntu Server 11.04.
# The Open Invention Network …
[Read more]CPTN Holdings unmasked. Oracle updates MySQL. And more.
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# Florian Mueller reported that the Novell patent acquiring CPTN Holdings is Microsoft, Apple, EMC and Oracle.
# The VAR Guy told the (previously) untold story of Novell’s sale to Attachmate.
# Attachmate committed to support the existing roadmaps and release schedules for Novell and SUSE products.
# Oracle …
[Read more]Topics for this podcast:
*Oracle, Java, the Apache Software Foundation and open
source
*An update on some open source database and data management
players
*CorraTech grows with support for open source application
alternatives
*Red Hat-Makara acquisition analysis and impact
*Linux kernel report shows strong support, but what now for
Novell?
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The future of Java. Google releases Gingerbread. And more.
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# The Register reported, and Oracle later confirmed, that Oracle’s proposed roadmap for Java 7 and 8 has been accepted.
# Stephen Colebourne provided more details on the results of the vote on Java 7 and Java 8.
# Google introduced the Nexus-S with Android Gingerbread. …
[Read more]New CEOs for Funambol and Openbravo. Funding for 10gen. And more.
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# Funambol appointed Amit Chawla as its new CEO.
# Openbravo appointed Paolo Juvara as its new CEO and raised a new funding round.
# 10gen raised $6.5m in third-round funding led by Sequoia Capital.
# Microsoft has reportedly invested an undisclosed sum in TurboHercules.
# …
[Read more]If you live in the U.S., this is the week to gorge on turkey. I wondered out loud last night to my wife if Thanksgiving is the day of the year when the most people eat the same meal. Can any of our overseas readers add to the conversation? Is there a holiday in your country where everyone eats pretty much the same thing? Anyway, before American brains shut down from an overdose of stuffing, here's some developer news you can use.
Oracle announces Plan B for Java
The Java language has continued to evolve over the years, adding features such as Generics. There's an ambitious wishlist of things that developers would like to see in Java 7, but apparently not enough time to do it all and still get a timely release out. As a result, the JCP has decided to forego some of the goodies until Java 8, which is not expected to grace the world until late 2012.
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