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CAOS Theory Podcast 2012.08.17
Jay Lyman, August 17, 2012 @ 3:26 pm ETTopics for this podcast: *Red Hat puts enterprise cred and bet on OpenStack *LexisNexis touts open source benefits of Hadoop alternative *Who doesn’t love Hadoop? *Proprietary vendors siding with open source *PostgreSQL and its cloud, commercial opportunity *Our Hosting and Cloud Transormation Summit NA event iTunes or direct download (32:24, 5.8MB)
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OSS support grows among proprietary players
Jay Lyman, August 15, 2012 @ 5:37 pm ETVMware continued its embrace of open source software with its recent acquisition of open source and virtual network provider Nicira. The move continued VMware’s aggressive M&A strategy and its effort to transition from proprietary software and virtualization to a broader market and cloud computing, largely through open source software. With previous open source software acquisitions [...]
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Who doesn’t love Hadoop?
Matthew Aslett, August 8, 2012 @ 11:04 am ETI tweeted recently that I had received a query from a journalist about whether Hadoop needs to go closed source to be fit for the enterprise. Now that the resulting report has been published we can see who was behind that suggestion, with Brian Christian, Zettaset chief technology officer, arguing that “The community serves its [...]
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