Without It's Own Horse HTC Could Be On The Sidelines
The mobile device market is a brutal place where only the very strongest survive. If you don't have your own horse in the race, you can easily go from first to back in the pack pretty quickly. Now it looks like one time industry darling, HTC may be one of the first casualties of the Google-Motorola Mobility merger. Read more
DataBase As A Service With Support
It seems like everything IT is being consumed as-a-Service (aaS) these days. So it should not be shocking that DBaaS, Database-as-a-Service is now available too. EnterpriseDB, the company that has built a business supporting the PostgreSQL database announced last week that is now offering DBaaS through the Amazon Cloud.
The idea is to offer almost "instant on" easy database to anyone who desires it. From the announcement: Read more
NYSE Takes Stock of Open Source CMS
Few global organizations can match the size, scale and importance of NYSE Euronext. (NYX). The leading global operator of financial markets, NYSE Euronext's markets represent fully one third of the entire world's equities trading-and the company is a major player in derivatives and technology services. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index and Fortune 500. Read more
Is Security An Afterthought For NoSQL?
There has been a not so silent debate going on in the security world about the security profile of the NoSQL database products. Read more
Sourcefire Stays True To Its Roots
Sourcefire is a security company that had its genesis in founder Marty Roesch's Snort open source intrusion detection system. Along the way Sourcefire has taken over the stewardship and introduced several other open source projects. One of the best known was the ClamAV anti-malware project. Read more
What Does 2012 Bring For Hadoop, Big Data and MapR?
Big Data continues to be a big story in 2012. There are multiple companies with multiple distributions of Hadoop competing for market share. What does 2012 have in store for these companies? What about the whispers around security and Big Data? Will Big Data move firmly to the enterprise in 2012? Read more
Measuring Open Source Success
Apache License Without The Apache Consensus
Last week I wrote about CouchDB founder and Couchbase developer Damien Katz announcing that he and his team would be concentrating on CouchBase Server and not CouchDB going forward. In his blog post explaining why Katz mentioned that while the Apache Foundation was a great place to start CouchDB, he found that consensus based, community approach did not fit his and his companies needs now. Read more
In The Browser War Does The Tortoise Beat The Hare?
OpenStack Continues Momentum As AT&T Signs On
OpenStack, the open source cloud architecture created by Rackspace and NASA (is there a more open source friendly US Government agency?), officially picked up another major supporter yesterday when Ma Bell herself, AT&T officially joined the project. AT&T becomes the first major US telecom provider to join the project, which already boasts over 140 corporate members. Read more
When Open Source Doesn't Do It Anymore
CouchDB and CouchOne founder Damien Katz has created a stir with his announcement that he and most of his team will be moving away from continuing to develop the Apache CouchDB NoSQL database and focusing extensively on the more commercially suited Couchbase Server 2.0. Read more
2012 Predictions: Consolidation In The NoSQL Space
Big Data has really gone BIG this year. Hadoop and NoSQL are just about household names in the tech world. No less than Oracle, the 8000 pound Gorilla in the DB world has given NoSQL its stamp of approval by coming out with a NoSQL of their own. This coming year promises to be more of the same. Read more
2012 Predictions: Will RIM Even Be Relevant By The Time New Blackberries Are Ready?
This is the first in a series I will be doing between now and New Years on predictions for 2012. Read more
Is Chrome The Most Secure Browser Or Is Google Gaming The System?
Last July I wrote about a study by NSS Labs about which browser was most secure. Based on "socially engineered malware", NSS Labs concluded that Microsoft's IE was most secure. Read more
Iron Foundry Brings .Net To Cloud Foundry
Back last April I wrote about VMware releasing a new open source PaaS solution called Cloud Foundry. At the time I said that VMware wanted to break Google and Microsoft's lock on PaaS, which many people consider the future of the cloud. Read more
Download Wrappers Are Wrong, Doubly Wrong With Open Source
How many times have you downloaded software over the net and while it was installing it asked you if you would like to use this terrific new toolbar or some other software? Worse yet, how many times did you install software you downloaded over the net only to find out that it installed other software without even asking you? No matter how many times it has happened to me, I always feel violated afterwards. I always thought it was a sleazy way of sneaking software or applications onto someones computer who otherwise would not want it. Read more
HP Does The Right Thing In Open Sourcing WebOS
Every once in a while things go the right way. Today's announcement by HP that they will open source WebOS is an example. The venerable OS seems to have more lives than a cat. After Palm nearly went under, only to be rescued by HP for a mere 1.2 billion dollars, PalmOS/WebOS seemed to have a bright future again. Read more
RIM PlayBook Stuck Between A Rock (Apple) And A Hard Place (Android)
Research In Motion (RIM) the company behind Blackberry smartphones and the fairly new PlayBook tablet computer has been getting hammered by Wall Street, most recently around an announcement that they have had to take a nearly half a billion dollar write down due to disappointing sales of their Playbook tablets Read more
Red Hat Releases RHEL 6.2
Red Hat has released a new version of their flagship Enterprise Linux OS. RHEL 6.2 consolidates patches since REHL 6.1 plus offers some substantial improvements in security, virtualization, performance and flexibility. I spoke with Tim Burke, VP of Linux engineering at Red Hat about the new release. Read more
HPCC, Now Available On Public, Private And Every Cloud In Between
I have written in the past (here and here) about HPCC, the open source Hadoop alternative developed by LexisNexis. Read more
- About Open Source Fact and Fiction
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