Topics for this podcast: *Opscode Chef extends to Windows for more enterprise devops *Black Duck continues growth, gains new funding *Cloudant expands NoSQL database focus, customers *New open source Web server and vendor Nginx arrives *The downside of Microsoft’s Android dollars iTunes or direct download (27:35, 4.7MB)

Sencha raises $15m. Facebook forms Open Compute foundation. And more.

Microsoft: “more than half your Android devices are belong to us”. And more

There’s been a lot of attention on the amount of money Microsoft is making from Android, including Microsoft’s own proclamations. Maybe it’s just that I’m more of a fan of Linux and open source software, or maybe I’m overly focused on the lawsuits and threats against Android, but I see serious downsides to all of [...]

Google unwraps Ice Cream Sandwich. Source code to follow. And more.

DOCOMO adopts, invests in Couchbase. Apache Cassandra reaches 1.0. And more.

Topics for this podcast: *Our latest special report on ‘The Changing Linux Landscape’ *Oracle’s Hadoop-based appliance and big-data strategy *Rackspace’s plan for the OpenStack Foundation *2011 Q3 funding for open source companies *Red Hat buys open source storage player Gluster iTunes or direct download (27:38, 4.7MB)

Dennis Ritchie RIP. Microsoft adopts Hadoop. And more.

Amid continued traction for Android, there have been a number of other developments for mobile operating systems based on Linux. Given my support for and belief in Linux and open source software, you might expect me to be bullish on the prospects for all of this mobile and device Linux. However, based on what I’ve [...]

Funding for NGINX and Spree. The State of Mozilla. And more.

We are pleased to present our latest CAOS special report, ‘The Changing Linux Landscape.’ This latest in our series of long-format reports takes a more in depth look at the Linux server market and how cloud computing, competition and the confluence of application development and IT operations known as devops are all affecting it. Basically, [...]

OpenStack Foundation. New Pentaho CEO. And more.

Red Hat’s $136m acquisition of open source storage vendor Gluster marks Red Hat’s biggest buy since JBoss and starts the fourth quarter with a very intersting deal. The acquisition is definitely good for Red Hat since it bolsters its Cloud Forms IaaS and OpenShift PaaS technology and strategy with storage, which is often the starting [...]

Red Hat acquires Gluster. Adobe acquires PhoneGap. Oracle does Hadoop. And more.

I tweeted last week that VC funding for open source related vendors was up 95% in Q3, driving by significant investment in ‘big data’ related vendors. In calculating that percentage I had overlooked an important deal, however: one that re-writes the record books and raises existential questions about investment in ‘open source related vendors’. There [...]