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 …
[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.
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[Read more]Red Hat grows revenue 20%+. Google withholding Honeycomb source code. And more.
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# Red Hat reported Q4 revenue up 25% to $245m, FY revenue up 22% to $909m
# Google is withholding the source code to Honeycomb for the foreseeable future.
# Rick Clark explained why he left Rackspace amid concerns that the company is exerting too much control over OpenStack.
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[Read more]Black Duck acquires Olliance Group. Funding for Zend and PHP Flog. And more.
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# Black Duck Software acquired Olliance Group.
# Viola Private Equity invested $7m in Zend Technologies.
# PHP Fog raised $1.8m from Madrona Venture Group, First Round Capital, Founder’s Co-op, and other angel investors.
# The proposal for CPTN Holdings to acquire Novell’s patents has …
[Read more]Patents! Patents! Patents! Canonical’s perfect 10. And more.
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# Google responded to Oracle’s claims that its Android OS infringes copyrights and patents related to Java.
# Matt Asay evaluated the various patent claims against Android and its related devices.
# Microsoft licensed smartphone patents from ACCESS Co and a subsidiary of Acacia Research.
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[Read more]Funding for Eucalytus and Moodlerooms. SkySQL offers support for MySQL. And more.
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# Eucalyptus Systems raised $20m in a second round of funding led by New Enterprise Associates.
# Moodlerooms reportedly raised $7.15m in equity funding.
# SkySQL announced its intention to provide support & services for the MySQL ecosystem.
# StatusNet launched the open source StatusNet Desktop Client.
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[Read more]The White House contributes to OSS. Growth for Pentaho and MuleSoft. And more.
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# The White House released some of the custom code it has developed for whitehouse.gov as open source.
# Pentaho reported 229% bookings growth and 177% Enterprise Edition customer growth in Q2.
# MuleSoft grew bookings by 140% in Q1.
# The beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now available, without Xen.
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[Read more]Talend raises $8m. Cisco leaves a TIP. Exit strategies. And more.
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# Talend raised $8m Series D from existing investors Balderton Capital, AGF Private Equity and Galileo Partners.
# Cisco promised to open source Telepresence Interoperability Protocol.
# Alfresco Community 3.3 included CMIS 1.0, Google Docs and IBM Lotus integration.
# Exit strategies – secrets of success for open source companies, from the Open Source Think Tank.
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[Read more]Ken Jacobs departs Oracle. Linus loves his Nexus One. And more.
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# As Matt Asay noted, Ken Jacobs’ departure from Oracle is a significant loss for MySQL.
# Linus Toravlds gave the Nexus One his personal thumbs-up.
# Glyn Moody outlined the H.264 video standards debate.
# Oracle job cuts affect GNOME accessibility work but, as Joe Brockmeier pointed out, the blame lies with everyone.
# SourceForge project administrators …
[Read more]WordPress Foundation formed. Reaction to Oracle-Sun approval. And more.
WordPress Foundation formed
# Matt Mullenwag launched the WordPress Foundation.
Reaction to Oracle-Sun’s EC approval
# In a memo Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz encouraged the company’s employees to
emotionally resign from Sun.
# EnterpriseDB and PostgreSQL co-founder Bruce Momjian issued a statement on the EC’s decision to approve Oracle-Sun.
# Mike Hogan …
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