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451 CAOS Links – 2007.02.28
Raven Zachary, February 28, 2007 @ 9:04 pm ETTerascala obtains $3m in funding for Linux cluster technology…Motorola launches new high availability open source project…Openbravo releases new version of its open source ERP software…and more…
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451 CAOS Links – 2007.02.27
Raven Zachary, February 27, 2007 @ 11:59 pm ETDrupal open source CMS project forms a non-profit…Ingres announces the availability of its Icebreaker software stack…GPLv3 deadline slips…and more…
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451 CAOS Links – 2007.02.26
Raven Zachary, February 26, 2007 @ 11:59 pm ETSolid contributes additional open source code…Medsphere releases Community Editions of OpenVista…Zenoss celebrates its one-year anniversary…and more…
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451 CAOS Links – 2007.02.23
Raven Zachary, February 23, 2007 @ 8:16 pm ETAlfresco adopts GPL license for Community Edition…HP makes money from Debian…Google preps for its next Summer of Code…and more…
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451 CAOS Links – 2007.02.22
Raven Zachary, February 22, 2007 @ 11:59 pm ETPentaho announces AJAX toolkit…Medicity rolling out open source content management for healthcare organizations…Sun Microsystems selects an OpenJDK Ambassador…and more…
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451 CAOS Links – 2007.02.21
Raven Zachary, February 21, 2007 @ 11:59 pm ETMySQL releases carrier grade edition database…OpenLogic and Covalent partner on Apache support…Fonality reaches out to the SMB telephony market…and more…
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Black Duck raises $12m in new funding round
Raven Zachary, February 21, 2007 @ 11:04 pm ETBlack Duck Software, a software compliance management company known for its open source code functionality, announced last week that it had secured $12m in its Series C funding round (press release). This round was led by Focus Ventures, with involvement by previous investors Fidelity Ventures, Flagship Ventures, General Catalyst, Intel Capital, and SAP Ventures. This [...]
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Fonality raises $7m in new funding round
Raven Zachary, February 21, 2007 @ 9:43 pm ETFonality, an open source telephony company, announced a few weeks ago that it had secured $7m in its Series C funding round (press release). The round includes a new investmenty by Intel Capital, with participation from existing investor, Azure Capital. This brings the total amount of funding raised by Fonality to $12.5m, having raised $5m [...]
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Going Open – CAOS Report #3 is out
Raven Zachary, February 21, 2007 @ 9:27 pm ETLast week marked the public release of our third CAOS Report (press release) – ‘Going Open – Software vendors in transition.’ The growth of open source software is increasingly placing pressure on the business models of proprietary software vendors. As a result, software vendors are looking at open source as an opportunity to grow distribution, [...]
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451 CAOS Links – 2007.02.20
Raven Zachary, February 20, 2007 @ 10:07 pm ETWind River acquires Linux technology from FSMLabs…Novell releases an update to the open source Mono .NET framework…Opengear to support open source Nagios monitoring technology in its network appliances…and more…
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451 CAOS Links – 2007.02.15
Raven Zachary, February 15, 2007 @ 11:59 pm ETUnisys joins the Open Solutions Alliance…OpenVZ rolls out additional features…Red Hat says Oracle’s ‘Unbreakable Linux’ not being used as bargaining chip…and more…
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451 CAOS Links – 2007.02.14
Raven Zachary, February 14, 2007 @ 8:35 pm ETOpen Solutions Alliance forms to drive adoption of open source business solutions…Black Duck Software raises an additional $12m…The 451 Group releases report on proprietary vendors ‘going open’…and more…
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451 CAOS Links – 2007.02.13
Raven Zachary, February 13, 2007 @ 9:34 pm ETSun releases AMP stack for Solaris…EnterpriseDB expands North American operations…Red Hat joins Interop Vendor Alliance…and more…
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451 CAOS Links – 2007.02.12
Raven Zachary, February 12, 2007 @ 11:59 pm ETMicrosoft and Novell unveil additional details of collaboration effort…ACCESS releases new mobile Linux platform…Zend announces Zend Platform v3…and more…
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451 CAOS Links – 2007.02.09
Raven Zachary, February 9, 2007 @ 9:12 pm ETJBoss founder Marc Fleury departs Red Hat…Microsoft’s top lawyer hails ‘landmark’ Linux deal with Novell…Sun Microsystems raves about the GPLv3…and more…
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451 CAOS Links – 2007.02.08
Raven Zachary, February 8, 2007 @ 9:00 pm ETCanonical and Linspire announce partnership…upcoming Open Source Think Tank attracts more than 20 software CEOs…Zenoss hires a VP of Sales…and more…
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451 CAOS Links – 2007.02.07
Raven Zachary, February 7, 2007 @ 11:33 pm ETFonality raises $7m, including investment from Intel…OpenLogic releases the results of an enterprise open source survey…Codehaus founder McWhirter joins Red Hat to lead JBoss community efforts…and more…
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451 CAOS Links – 2007.02.06
Raven Zachary, February 6, 2007 @ 8:55 pm ETGreenplum raises $19m in financing…GroundWork raises $12.5m…Sun Microsystems announces success with OpenSolaris in academia…and more…
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Greenplum obtains additional funding, hires new CEO
Raven Zachary, February 6, 2007 @ 4:09 pm ETGreenplum, an open source data warehousing and business intelligence company, announced $19m in equity and debt financing and the appointment of a new CEO today (press release). The Series B funding round was led by Sierra Ventures, with participation from previous Greenplum investors Mission Ventures, Dawntreader Ventures, and EDF Ventures – totalling $15m. The remaining [...]
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GroundWork raises $12.5m in new funding round
Raven Zachary, February 6, 2007 @ 1:34 pm ETGroundWork Open Source, an open source systems and network management company, announced today that it has secured $12.5m in its Series C funding round (press release). The round includes new investors JAFCO Ventures and SAP Ventures, with participation from existing GroundWork investors, Canaan Partners and Mayfield Fund. This follows a Series B funding round of [...]
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