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Acquia, a North Andover, Mass.-based startup, is announcing a supported product using Drupal, the open-source content managment system that underlies many of the community aspects on the web, from sites such as Fast Company to The Onion. It’s a rite of passage for an open-source project […] Read more »

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Written by Geva Perry, chief marketing officer at GigaSpace Technologies. We are witnessing a seismic shift in information technology — the kind that comes around every decade or so. It is so massive that it affects not only business models, but the underlying architecture of how […] Read more »

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For what seems to be an eternity, we have been promised seamless connectivity, high-speed connections that appear auto-magically out of thin air, giving us access to the wonders of the web — and of course, our data, including the unending stream of emails. Today, we have […] Read more »

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If only it were green. That’s what I found myself thinking after Sun Microsystems said it’s paid an undisclosed amount for Innotek, the makers of open-source desktop virtualization software VirtualBox Virtual Machine. With an earth-friendly spin, Innoteck could have created a trifecta of buzzwords that would […] Read more »

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Ok, so if you’re not worried about fundraising, chances are you’re worried about your IP. We’ve written a lot about the question of whether a startup’s precious cash should be spent on the laborious and expensive process of acquiring patents on intellectual property. See, Patents, why […] Read more »

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Sun Microsystems said today it would pay $1 billion to buy privately held open-source database maker MySQL, a move that strengthens Sun’s ability to offer an alternative to proprietary software. The purchase, while smaller than the $8.5 billion Oracle-BEA deal that was also unveiled today, is […] Read more »

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[qi:012] If you are a Facebook app developer, I have some good news for you: Joyent, a Marin County, Calif.-based on-demand computing and web hosting startup, is going to start offering free hosting to Facebook app developers. The company, we are told, is going to offer […] Read more »

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BBC says DIY crowd been quick to embrace Sony’s PlayStation Portable console. Of course, I said so nearly two weeks ago – Its a PSP planet! (Did Beeb get inspired by that?) By the way, PSP as a kitchen timer, if not the sink. Google asks […] Read more »

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