OpenStack Foundation. New Pentaho CEO. And more.
# Rackspace announced its intention to form an independent OpenStack Foundation.
# HP has chosen Ubuntu as the lead host and guest operating system for its Public Cloud.
# Pentaho appointed Quentin Gallivan as its new CEO.
# Hortonworks continued the discussion about contributions to Apache Hadoop.
# Bob Bickel explained why CloudBees is not, itself, open …
[Read more]Open Cloud Initiative launches. HP joins OpenStack. Oracle releases Java 7. And more.
# The Open Cloud Initiative launched to drive open standards in cloud computing.
# HP announced its support for OpenStack.
# Oracle announced the availability of Java SE 7. The Apache Software Foundation warned of index corruption and crashes in Apache Lucene and Solr.
# Nebula …
[Read more]There’s a real explosion of cloud platforms and management tools, it seems you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one these days. In the commercial proprietary solutions space you have – CA’s 3Terra AppLogic, Enomaly, Nimbula, RightScale. In open source there are Eucalyptus, Cloud.com, Open Nebula and …
[Read more]Spring forward. Freeloaders, leeches and hermits. Intel buys Wind River. And more.
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A Spring in its step
SpringSource boasted of rapid revenue growth while CEO Rod
Johnson claimed
that Red Hat’s Open Choice initiative is defensive response to
SpringSource, a suggestion that was denied by Rich Sharples.
Freeloaders, leeches and hermits
I already provided my views earlier this week on Infoworld’s
report about open source ‘leeches’ and corporate contributions.
The debate continued as Dave Rosenberg …