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NASA's Kepler spots Earth-size planets outside our solar system
NASA's star-gazing telescope Kepler has added to its amazing discoveries list by spying the first Earth-size planets orbiting a Sun-like star outside our solar system.
NASA says while the planets are too close and too hot to the star to be in the so-called habitable zone where liquid water could exist , they are the smallest exoplanets ever confirmed around a star like our Sun. Read more
SchoonerSQL - MySQL On Steroids
While MySQL has been an unqualified success, there have always been whispers and regrets from those looking to use the open source database in mission critical situations. If you need five 9's type of availability and other large enterprise features, MySQL may not have been able to scale up for you. But of course if you were Oracle and you owned MySQL, that was not too large a problem because if MySQL wasn't enterprise enough, they had another database that they could sell you that would scale to the biggest jobs. Read more
MySQL Moves Closer to Closed
MySQL founder and developer Monty Widenius announced on his blog that the MySQL relational database management system would no longer be a free software project and will instead be under an Open Core model. Widenius pointed to an Oracle announcement last week, which detailed new commercial extensions for MySQL Enterprise Edition. Read more
NASA shoots down comet Elenin doom and gloom predictions
The comet Elenin which will pass by Earth October 16 has generated such an inordinate amount of doomsday reports from a number of different sources that Read more
Big drop in solar activity could mean much cooler Earth
Scientists say the Sun, which roils with flares and electromagnetic energy every 11 years or so could go into virtual hibernation after the current cycle of high activity, reducing temperatures on Earth. Read more
NASA satellite snaps pictures of massive solar blast
Submitted by Layer 8 on Wed, 06/08/11 - 10:50am.NASA's sun watching satellite, the Solar Dynamics Observatory got a great shot of a medium-sizd solar flare this week.
NASA said the radiation storm and a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME) mushroomed up and fell back down looking as if it covered an area of almost half the solar surface. Read more
Trying To Catch Lightning Twice
The team that brought us MySQL and then sold it for a Billion dollars to Sun is looking to invest in the next big open source success story. Helsinki based Open Ocean Investments announced yesterday the launch of their Fund Three with Sixty Million Dollars. Read more
Should Oracle be blamed for OpenOffice.org pullout?
Is Oracle getting a bad rap for admitting defeat with OpenOffice.org already? Matthew Aslett seems to think so. While Aslett is right that Sun had the ball much longer, Oracle shouldn't be held blameless either. Read more
Is the 'database for the cloud' ready? Drizzle GA released
The Drizzle project has been pumping out release after release for some time, but the March 13 release marks the first "generally available," release. Is it time to start migrating off MySQL yet? Read more
Planet Venus set to get in the Moon's face
With all the talk lately about the recent monster solar flare and its impact on Earth, there are other things going on up there to make you gaze into space. Read more
NASA tamps down massive solar flare impact hype
While some of the coverage of the massive Valentine's Day solar flare made it sound like the world was coming to an end, or darn close to it. NASA's website this after Read more
The Oracle scorecard: One year after Sun
Next week it will be one year since Oracle finalized its acquisition of Sun. How have Sun's open source projects fared with Larry Ellison calling the shots? Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart has started compiling a list and the final tally isn't pretty. Read more
Death by Open Source
I read an interesting interview of Scott McNealy at The Register by Gavin Clarke (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/07/mcnealy_sun_and_open_source/). Read more
Billion Dollar Open Source Companies? There Are Lots of Them
In the year 2011 we will in all likelihood see the first company to reach a billion dollars in revenue with an open source focused model. Dan Woods over on Forbes.com has an excellent piece highlighting Red Hat as the first and probably only company in the foreseeable future to reach this truly epic milestone. According to Dan there have been only about 20 software companies or so that have reached the billion dollar revenue model. Read more
Black Duck, The Big Bird In Open Source Pond Buys SpikeSource
Black Duck Software yesterday announced that they had acquired the assets of SpikeSource. This represents the latest in a string of acquisitions by the Massachusetts based open source company. Read more
Signs Of The Apocalypse: Oracle and Apple to Collaborate on Open Source Java for Mac
In a sure sign that the apocalypse is fast approaching, those two open source friendly powerhouses, Apple and Oracle, today announced that Apple is joining the Oracle OpenJDK community. Read more
Why Microsoft's attack on OpenOffice.org isn't "competition"
It's rare to see anyone stick up for Microsoft's ugly tactics, but it's refreshing to see somebody trying to rally for Redmond — even if they are wrong.
Fellow NetworkWorld blogger Alan Shimel asks the question, "should Microsoft roll over and play dead to OpenOffice.org?" Shimel then says that Microsoft is just "competing" with OpenOffice.org. Read more
OpenOffice Spits In Oracle's Eye, Changes Name To The Document Foundation
What many claim is the worlds most popular open source software, OpenOffice, delivered a preemptive blow to Oracle today. They have changed the name of OpenOffice.org to The Document Foundation. While they have invited Oracle to become a member of the foundation as the successor to Sun, they have also made it clear that they will be one of many in a true "meritocratic organization". Read more
Oracle and HP hug; now Hurd can get to work
So the war between Oracle and HP lasted all of two weeks. Seems about right for this sort of thing.
It was only the day after Labor Day that Oracle boss Larry Ellison was ranting and ranting some more about HP's audacity in kicking up a legal fuss over the prospect of its banished ex-CEO Mark Hurd spilling company secrets to his new employer, Oracle. Ellison went so far as to suggest that the matter cast into doubt future dealings between the technology heavyweights, who reportedly share some 140,000 customers. Read more
Who's buying Novell? Place your bets
Rumor has it that Novell has tentatively reached a sale agreement that would split the business in two, and sell the Linux half to "a strategic buyer." Assuming the deal goes through, who's the unnamed suitor, and what does it mean for the SUSE Linux business and the openSUSE Project? Read more
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