Talend delivers v5. Zentyal raises series A. The TCO of OSS. And more.
# Talend announced version 5 of its data integration suite, adding business process management capabilities via an OEM relationship with BonitaSoft. Yves De Montcheuil explained the name changes in version 5.
# Zentyal closed a series A venture capital funding of over $1m by Open Ocean …
[Read more]Red Hat revenue up 28% in Q2. Funding for NoSQL vendors. And more.
# Red Hat reported net income of $40m in the second quarter on revenue up 28% to $281.3m.
# 10gen raised $20m in funding, while DataStax closed an $11m series B round, while also releasing its DataStax Enterprise and Community products. Additionally Neo Technology …
[Read more]Hudson developers vote for Jenkins. SugarCRM turns cash flow positive. And more.
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# The Hudson developer community voted overwhelmingly to rename the project Jenkins, and will continue without Oracle.
# SugarCRM turned cash flow positive in 2010 as billings increased 52% year on year.
# BonitaSoft announced the release of version 5.4 of Bonita Open Solution.
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[Read more]Marten Mickos joins Eucalyptus. Novell rejects Elliot. Perspectives on OSBC. And more.
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# Mårten Mickos was named CEO of Eucalyptus Systems.
# Novell’s board rejected Elliot’s takeover proposal as inadequate, will review other alternatives.
# North Bridge Venture Partners published the results of its Future of Open Source survey.
# Rob Bearden was appointed executive chairman of the board of Pentaho.
# The Eclipse Foundation …
[Read more]Oracle closes Sun acquisition. The state of the union at Red Hat. And more.
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# Oracle has completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
# Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst discussed the current State of the Union at Red Hat.
# Oracle told eWeek Java will be “business as usual”.
# CNet published Scott McNealy’s farewell email to Sun employees.
# The WSJ reported that Larry Ellison …
[Read more]Larry Augustin confirmed as SugarCRM CEO. Red Hat’s Fedora Project is 12. And more.
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For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL but were afraid to ask
# Larry Augustin was confirmed as full-time CEO of SugarCRM.
# Red Hat, by way of the Fedora Project, announced the launch of Fedora 12.
# Microsoft is to …
[Read more]The future of MySQL. The SCO Group terminates Darl McBride. And more.
The future of MySQL
Monty Widenius urged Oracle to give up on MySQL in order to
land Sun while Richard Stallman, Knowledge Ecology International
(KEI) and the Open Rights Group sent a letter to the
EC urging it to block Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL. All of which
prompted Florian Mueller, who it should be noted is working with
Widenius as part of his campaign, to claim that there is growing public opposition to
Oracle owning Sun’s MySQL.
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[Read more]Citrix joins the Linux Foundation. BonitaSoft raises $3m. And more.
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# Citrix joined The Linux Foundation.
# Open source BPM vendor BonitaSoft raised $3m from Ventech and Auriga Partners.
# Jaspersoft updated JasperReports Professional with enhanced data visualization.
# US CIO Vivek Kundra outlined the government’s cloud strategy, using NASA’s open source Nebula cloud.
# Infobright …
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