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April 22nd, 2010 
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Having watched people advocate the Linux desktop for more than 10 years, it’s always surprising to see the same people arguing against the things that will help bring Linux (and software freedom) to a larger audience. But like the fanboys who pine for the days before indie bands went to major labels, there’s a loud minority in the Linux community protesting the commercial offerings that come along with success.
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Linux Shedding Indie Status is a Good Thing
Posted in Open Source News 
Tags: Commercial, Companies, Fedora, linux, money, open-source, oracle 
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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has pushed out the 0.6 release of Cassandra with support for Apache Hadoop, and several improvements to the Cassandra architecture and speed. Don’t let the release number fool you, Cassandra is in production use on some of the busiest sites on the Web, and may be giving MySQL a run for its money soon. Cassandra is a NoSQL distributed database that was originally developed and open sourced by Facebook and is now used by Rackspace, Digg, Twitter, and many others
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Cassandra Release Brings Speed Boost: Beginning of the End for MySQL?
Posted in Open Source News Tags: apache, Applications, cassandra, dent-the-growth, misconceptions, nosql, oracle No Comments » March 31st, 2010 Admin
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If you’ve been following the news about OpenSolaris–the open operating system that Sun Microsystems spent years developing and evangelizing–then you’ve probably seen the news of Oracle taking it back. As InfoWorld’s Savio Rodrigues has noted , following its acquisition of Sun, Oracle has changed the licensing language for OpenSolaris to imply that the operating system is now 90-day trialware. Specifically, the new language refers to 90-day “evaluations” of the OS
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Does Oracle Have More Fees In Mind For Sun’s Open Projects?
Posted in Open Source News Tags: language-refers, Licensing, linux, news, Open, open-source, opensolaris, oracle, seen-the-news, Story, sun microsystems, watching-open No Comments » March 29th, 2010 Admin
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Oracle needs to start coming clean about its plans for OpenSolaris. Even after the close of the Sun deal, very little is being said about OpenSolaris and with Oracle tightening restrictions on Solaris 10 , the company needs to come clean with the community. As of last week, Oracle put the kibosh on unrestricted use of Solaris 10.
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Watching OpenSolaris: What’s the Story?
Posted in Open Source News Tags: after-the-close, Debian, linux, opensolaris, openSUSE, oracle, savio-rodrigues, solaris, solaris-even, speculation, tablet-focuses No Comments » March 26th, 2010 Admin
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While commercial open source projects have been picking up steam in recent years, as have mergers and acquisitions surrounding them, former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos is convinced that more companies need to be making money from open source.
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Former MySQL CEO Mickos Says Open Source Needs More Money Flow
Posted in Open Source News Tags: Business, commercial-open, eclipsecon, eucalyptus, marten mickos, mickos, Mysql, oracle No Comments »
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