Topics for this podcast: *Cloud M&A potential around OpenStack *Oracle’s commercial extensions for MySQL *Puppet Labs rolls out Enterprise 2.0, hosts PuppetConf *Basho bolsters Riak distributed data store in NoSQL race *Our latest special CAOS report, ‘The Changing Linux Landscape’ iTunes or direct download (25:59, 4.4MB)

Microsoft’s Android revenue. Tizen formation. And more.

It’s been some time now that we’ve been talking about devops, the pushing together of application development and application deployment via IT operations, in the enterprise. To keep up to speed on the trend, 451 CAOS attended PuppetConf, a conference for the Puppet Labs community of IT administrators, developers and industry leaders around the open [...]

Riak goes 1.0. Jaspersoft targets mobile. R on Hadoop. And more.

Oracle last week quietely announced the addition of new extended capabilities in MySQL Enterprise Edition, confirming the adoption of the open core licensing strategy, as we reported last November. The news was both welcomed and derided. Rather than re-hashing previous arguments about open core licensing, what interests me more about the move is how it [...]

Red Hat revenue up 28% in Q2. Funding for NoSQL vendors. And more.

I wrote recently about how Microsoft is now among the broadest supporters of enterprise Linux server, but when it comes to desktop PCs and laptops, mobile and converged devices and end users, Microsoft’s Linux support is a time warp back to 1998 when computers and their software were fused by proprietary sodder. Though probably not [...]

We recently saw what is being described as the ending of the seven-year-old SCO contract and intellectual property dispute that dragged Linux through the mud before it propelled the open source OS into much broader enterprise use and credibility. You’d think the lessons of SCO would be a shining example for technology companies of what [...]

Whether it’s been our discussion of unpaid, community Linux, the changing Linux landscape or cloud operating systems, we’ve always seen Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux as a major factor in the emerging cloud computing software market. Canonical was the first Linux provider to so aggressively and prominently target cloud computing by its support and incorporation of the [...]

HP builds Cloud Services on OpenStack. Linux on Github. And more.

Strobe launches App Delivery Network. Red Hat launches Aeolus. And more.