Cloudera raises $40m. Accel announces $100m fund. Rackspace takes OpenStack private. And more.
# Cloudera raised $40m in series D funding and announced a partnership with NetApp around its NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop.
# Accel Partners launched a $100m Big Data Fund to invest in Hadoop- and NoSQL-related vendors.
# Rackspace …
[Read more]Elliot offers $2bn for Novell. OSI refutes IIPA’s view on open source. And more.
Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory on Twitter and
Identi.ca
“Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have
to.”
# Novell confirmed a $2bn purchase offer from Elliot Associates. Interesting perspectives on Elliot’s offer for Novell from Linuxquestions, Andy Updegrove, and Matt Asay.
# The OSI categorically rejected the …
[Read more]Objectional statements on Oracle-Sun-MySQL. How Google uses Linux. And more.
Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory on Twitter and
Identi.ca
“Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have
to.”
Objectional statements
The European Commission communicated its Statement of Objections
to Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems to those
involved, prompting Oracle to claim the EC has a profound misunderstanding of
database competition and open source, the US DoJ to reiterate its position
that Oracle’s acquisition of Sun is unlikely to be
anticompetitive and an EC spokesperson to explain that concern
over …