OSCON Data attracts upstart DB companies
PORTLAND, ORE. — At OSCON today it became glaringly obvious what the big push at the conference is besides cloud: Data. For the first time, OSCON Data is colocated with the main conference. The event...
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Open source cloud computing advances at OSCON
PORTLAND, ORE. — Just a year after OpenStack was formed by Rackspace and NASA, OSCON welcomed the debut of Nebula. Nebula will combine open source technology developed at NASA with commodity servers...
View ArticleHealth care systems need open source help
PORTLAND, ORE. — Every year I go to OSCON and am amused by the wild hair, impressed with the depth of passion and geekery, and inspired by some really big open source initiatives that people are...
View ArticleDevelopers worry about the future of MySQL conferences
MySQL has gone through a bit of turmoil, and we have reported on some of the efforts to keep it going despite a seemingly uncommitted parent company. So we aren’t exactly surprised at the news that...
View ArticleEucalyptus 3 boasts HA capabilities
Eucalyptus Systems today announced the upcoming launch of Eucalyptus 3, the third iteration of its open source on-premise IaaS cloud computing software. The software will be available in the fourth...
View ArticleMeeGo? Speculation about the OS abounds
I’ve been wondering (aloud at times), about the future of the MeeGo OS. I was there at OSCON and LinuxCon and the Linux Collaboration Summit in 2010 when it was hyped. The Intel partnership with Nokia...
View ArticleTizen: Another mobile OS from the Linux Foundation
I was a little flummoxed to read about the launch of Tizen, a new open source mobile and device operating system based on Linux. Earlier this month I wondered aloud about MeeGo, and this is the final...
View ArticleRed Hat acquires Gluster: The Red Hat of storage
Today, Red Hat announced the acquisition of Gluster, Inc., an open source storage solution provider specializing in the management of big data. Red Hat paid $136 million for the storage file system...
View ArticleOpen source office suites: LibreOffice takes on OpenOffice
It has now been one year since The Document Foundation (TDF) announced the LibreOffice project, and by all counts, the open source software suite is flourishing. After just one year, TDF estimates that...
View ArticleSUSE unveils OpenStack cloud solution, rips Red Hat
Earlier this month SUSE became the latest company to jump on the OpenStack bandwagon, announcing it would release an early development version of its SUSE Cloud. That bandwagon is starting to get...
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