In this video interview, Marten Mickos, ex-CEO of MySQL, discusses the state of open source, lessons he learned from his time at MySQL, and how cloud computing changes everything including open source. He shares unconventional wisdom about the need for open source to think money.…
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Eucalyptus Raises $20 Million in New VC Funds
Eucalyptus Systems, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based start-up that is developing cloud computing management platform based on the open source Eucalyptus says that it has raised $20 million in a new round of funding. With this infusion, Eucalyptus has raised a total of $25.5 million.…
Read MoreStructure 2010: Let My Data Go: Why Total Freedom Is the Real Lock-in
The most successful vendors of software-as-a-service, or SaaS will be those who can offer a model similar to banks, giving customers the option to withdraw data at any time.…
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Eucalyptus Systems has launch which support for Windows virtual machines (VMs), that allows Eucalyptus users to run Windows images and applications. Eucalyptus now supports all major hypervisors. The new software allows easy switching from Amazon's EC2 to VMware-based cloud offerings.…
Read MoreWith a New CEO, How Much Is Eucalyptus Worth? $100M?
Eucalyptus Systems, which makes an open-source cloud management platform, last week hired former MySQL chief executive Marten Mickos to turn Eucalyptus into a big business. Can Mickos turn Eucalyptus into a market leader for building open-source private clouds and repeat the MySQL success story?…
Read MoreHadoop-Focused Startup Cloudera Raises $5 Million
Cloudera, a Burlingame, Calif-based company offering services around the open source software framework Hadoop, has raised $5 million in Series A funding…
Read MoreWith Demand Growing, MySQL CEO Calls It Quits
Marten Mickos, who was chief executive officer of MySQL prior to its billion-dollar sale to Sun Microsystems (s JAVA), has decided to…
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