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Is the Hortonworks IPO a referendum on open source?
This past Friday, Hortonworks made good on its announced intention to present an initial public offering to the market. The shares were…
Read MoreWith $10M, HashiCorp launches its first commercial product
Building applications in today’s world involves a lot of work assembling, managing and monitoring all of those various components that need to…
Read MoreDo you find OSS hard to deploy? Meet ZeroToDocker
Open source software is widely available and hugely helpful. But the packaging can be dicey and deployment difficult. So say hey to Netflix' ZeroToDocker.…
Read MoreSwiftStack grabs $16M to help companies scale out storage across data centers
SwiftStack's take on OpenStack storage technology lets an organization tether together its storage infrastructure across multiple data centers.…
Read MoreLaunching open-source projects is easy, keeping them running well? Not so much
On this week's Structure Show, Facebook's James Pearce and how the new TODO group can help people better maintain and manage open source software after it's released.…
Read MoreCIOs ill equipped to manage the growing security threats
Security, or Information Security (InfoSec) as the more formal term, is going through a period of massive change. In recent months, the…
Read MoreVMware plays nice with OpenStack, unveils a VMware-powered data-center-in-a-box
At VMworld, the virtualization giant will unveil a new service that makes OpenStack more compatible with VMware tools and VMware-loaded data centers as well as a new appliance that will come stocked with (what else?) VMware software.…
Read MoreStandardized open source products are the key to unlocking the lock-in trap
Mårten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, argues that when companies lock in to their own design and customizations, it's as harmful as when they lock in to a vendor. Mickos explains why he thinks using standardized open source products is the best way to avoid both types of lock-in.…
Read MoreNode.js project wants to attract more users by getting rid of contributor license agreements
Developers won't be required to sign contributor license agreements before contributing to the open source software platform, although Node.js will still be distributed under the MIT License.…
Read MoreWelcome to the open source renaissance
Ever-popular among developers, open source technology has moved away from the fringes of tech right to the center of the enterprise, thanks to its high level of security and agility.…
Read MoreSlap fight in Node.js land
Two key contributors to the popular server-side language are disagreeing publicly over the use of gender-specific pronouns in the project.…
Read MoreScott McNealy’s top 10 signs “your CIO isn’t ready for the modern web”
Sun Microsystems' co-founder sounds off on clueless CIOs and manages to get in a few digs in at CA and (gasp) Apple. But not Oracle or Sparc.…
Read MoreOpen source flight, from the Drone Lab to Twitter: Q&A with Dave Lester
We caught up with Dave Lester, soon-to-be graduate of UC Berkeley’s School of Information and a web developer who told us about his drone hacking project, the importance of code integration, and his upcoming foray into open source at Twitter.…
Read MoreWhat happens when we build things for free? Only time will tell
How does the tension between free and paid manifest itself in the technology world? Panelists at MIT's Sloan School of Management conference on the Digital Economy explored the idea Friday in San Francisco.…
Read MoreBattery Ventures promotes a partner as enterprise IT keeps going strong
The changes in enterprise IT and infrastructure has been very good for VC firms which have put billions in startups and seen lucrative exits. Now, as IT continues its shift Battery Ventures is promoting Itzik Parnafes to general partner for the next stage of enterprise IT.…
Read MoreNew-look database startup NuoDB gets $10M to scale up and out
NuoDB has $10 million in Series B funding led by Morgenthaler Ventures and adds database pioneer Gary Morgenthaler to its board. The company will use the funding to widen the beta of its webscale database and get it out broadly this fall.…
Read MoreOracle faces big data, cloud, hardware triple whammy
For years, Oracle has wowed Wall Street with fat software margins: Large companies depending on Oracle relational databases pay what it takes to keep them up and running. It's unclear whether Oracle can carry that dominance over into the Big Data era, however.…
Read MoreTrue or false: Citrix is more compatible with AWS
In the wake of CloudStack's announcement, Cloudscaling's CTO, Randy Bias, takes issue with its claims of “AWS compatibility” and “true Amazon-style architecture.” According to Bias, "no one should be under the illusion that CloudStack is more AWS/Amazon compatible than any other open source cloud software."…
Read MoreKickstarter effort turns netbooks into robots!
Got an old netbook? For a $225 Kickstarter pledge, you can turn a netbook into a telepresence robot, remotely controlling it over from a web browser or a smartphone. Over a web connection, you could even use the Oculus robot to speak with remote workers.…
Read MoreBig Switch open-sources Floodlight, an OpenFlow controller
Big Switch Networks, a startup using the OpenFlow protocol to help companies build software-defined networks, has open-sourced its controller software, dubbed Floodlight. With this move, it will attempt to unseat networking giant Cisco by creating an ecosystem of startups building tools for SDNs.…
Read MoreJoi Ito: Open-source hardware is a no brainer
The coming wave of open-source hardware, 3-D printing and other breakthroughs will open the floodgates to tech innovation, just as open-source software sparked the last tech boom by fueling the Google, Facebook software empires, said Joi Ito, director of MIT's Media Lab.…
Read MoreLinkedIn open sources code from IndexTank acquisition
LinkedIn has announced that the technology behind IndexTank, the search engine startup it acquired back in October, has been released as open source software. It was pretty clear that IndexTank was bought largely for its talent, so it's good news that its technology will live on.…
Read MoreHow Xamarin gave Mono a life after Novell
Xamarin, the company born earlier this year when Novell laid off the entire workforce dedicated to maintaining Mono, the open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET development framework, was up against big odds. But at just seven months old, Xamarin is now profitable without VC backing.…
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