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Is MySQL usage really declining?
Matthew Aslett, January 23, 2012 @ 12:12 pm ETIf you’re a MySQL user, tell us about your adoption plans by taking our current survey. Back in late 2009, at the height of the concern about Oracle’s imminent acquisition of Sun Microsystems and MySQL, 451 Research conducted a survey of open source software users to assess their database usage and attitudes towards Oracle. The [...]
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CAOS Theory Podcast 2012.01.20
Jay Lyman, January 20, 2012 @ 3:24 pm ETTopics for this podcast: *Hadoop v1.0 and year ahead *Oracle-Cloudera deal for more Hadoop *Oracle’s ‘Sun spot’ with Solaris *Open Source M&A outlook for 2012 *Our new MySQL/NoSQL/NewSQL survey iTunes or direct download (28:49, 4.9MB)
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451 Research MySQL/NoSQL/NewSQL survey
Matthew Aslett, January 18, 2012 @ 11:02 am ETI’ve just launched a new survey that should be of interest if you are currently using or actively considering MySQL or any of the NoSQL or NewSQL offerings The aim of the survey is threefold: – identify trends in database usage over time – explore changing attitudes to MySQL following its acquisition by Oracle – [...]
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2012 to be year of Linux domination
Jay Lyman, January 5, 2012 @ 2:10 pm ETPreviously, I’ve called out years for non-desktop Linux in 2008, Linux in both the low and high-ends of the market in 2009, ‘hidden’ Linux in 2010 and last year, cloud computing in 2011. For 2012, I see continued growth, prevalence, innovation and impact from Linux, thus leading to a 2012 that is dominated by Linux. [...]
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Ada Initiative highlights challenge to get more women in open source
Jay Lyman, December 21, 2011 @ 10:16 pm ETThe lack of women involved in open source has unfortunately long been a weakness for open source software and its many, varied communities around the globe. In fact, we found out recently just how significant the problem is, with troubling figures as reported by Valerie Aurora with the Ada Initiative that indicate significantly lower representation [...]
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451 CAOS Links 2011.12.20
Matthew Aslett, December 20, 2011 @ 11:55 am ETRed Hat revenue hits $290m. New CEOs for Cloudant and Lucid Imagination. And more.
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The future of commercial open source business strategies
Matthew Aslett, December 19, 2011 @ 11:41 am ETThe reason we are confident that the comparative decline in the use of the GNU GPL family of licenses and the increasing significance of complementary vendors in relation to funding for open source software-related vendors will continue is due to the analysis of our database of more than 400 open source software-related vendors, past and [...]
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Our Total Data report is now totally available
Matthew Aslett, December 19, 2011 @ 10:22 am ET…and it’s totally awesome. For more details of our Total Data report, and how to get it, see our Too Much Information blog.
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CAOS Theory Podcast 2011.12.16
Jay Lyman, December 16, 2011 @ 4:45 pm ETTopics for this podcast: *Hadoop roundup -Cloudera Enterprise Hadoop update -Hadapt combines Hadoop with db analytics -Informatica grows its Hadoop work *HP open sources WebOS *The GPL fade *Red Hat acquisition targets iTunes or direct download (31:41, 5.4MB)
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VC funding for OSS hits new high. Or does it?
Matthew Aslett, December 16, 2011 @ 11:41 am ETOne of the favourite blog topics on CAOS Theory blog over the years has been our quarterly and annual updates on venture capital funding for open source-related businesses, based on our database of over 600 funding deals since January 1997 involving nearly 250 companies, and over $4.8bn. There are still a few days left for [...]
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On the continuing decline of the GPL
Matthew Aslett, December 15, 2011 @ 11:24 am ETOur most popular CAOS blog post of the year, by some margin, was this one, from early June, looking at the trend towards persmissive licensing, and the decline in the usage of the GNU GPL family of licenses. Prompted by this post by Bruce Byfield, I thought it might be interesting to bring that post [...]
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451 CAOS Links 2011.12.14
Matthew Aslett, December 14, 2011 @ 10:29 am ETJive goes public. webOS goes open source. Cloud Foundry goes .NET. And more.
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WebOS and the open alternative live another day
Jay Lyman, December 13, 2011 @ 3:32 pm ETThere has been no shortage of reaction to HP’s move to make the Linux-based WebOS open source software. Below, I offer some of my thoughts on the meaning for the different players affected. *What’s it mean for WebOS? Moving WebOS to open source was best option for HP. It retains some value in the software [...]
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451 CAOS Links 2011.12.09
Matthew Aslett, December 9, 2011 @ 6:14 am ETFunding for BlazeMeter and Digital Reasoning. Red Hat goes unstructured. And more.
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451 CAOS Links 2011.12.06
Matthew Aslett, December 6, 2011 @ 11:18 am ETData.gov goes open source. GridGain raises $2.5m And more.
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451 CAOS Links. 2011.12.02
Matthew Aslett, December 2, 2011 @ 1:01 pm ETTalend delivers v5. Zentyal raises series A. The TCO of OSS. And more.
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Ubuntu on the move more than in decline
Jay Lyman, December 1, 2011 @ 6:07 pm ETUbuntu has been taking some criticism and heat for its falling Distrowatch rankings. I don’t doubt that after years of popularity, we’re finally seeing a bit of a return to the desktop Linux world of old when a new distribution shot up every week or month, then faded, then re-appeared … and so on. However, [...]
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451 CAOS Links 2011.11.29
Matthew Aslett, November 29, 2011 @ 11:14 am ETSoftware foundations in the Git era. New funding for Puppet Labs. And more
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451 CAOS Links 2011.11.23
Matthew Aslett, November 23, 2011 @ 11:48 am ETRed Hat’s Ceylon makes its debut. Heroku launches PostgreSQL service. And more.
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451 CAOS Links 2011.11.18
Matthew Aslett, November 18, 2011 @ 11:33 am ETRapid7 secures new funding. Microsoft drops Dryad. And more.
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