One 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 [...]

Our 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 [...]

Jive goes public. webOS goes open source. Cloud Foundry goes .NET. And more.

There 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 [...]

Funding for BlazeMeter and Digital Reasoning. Red Hat goes unstructured. And more.

Data.gov goes open source. GridGain raises $2.5m And more.

Talend delivers v5. Zentyal raises series A. The TCO of OSS. And more.

Ubuntu 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, [...]

Software foundations in the Git era. New funding for Puppet Labs. And more

Red Hat’s Ceylon makes its debut. Heroku launches PostgreSQL service. And more.

Rapid7 secures new funding. Microsoft drops Dryad. And more.

Funding for Vyatta and Hortonworks. Ice Cream Sandwich source code. And more.

451 Research has today published a report looking at the funding being invested in Apache Hadoop- and NoSQL database-related vendors. The full report is available to clients, but non-clients can find a snapshot of the report, along with a graphic representation of the recent up-tick in funding, over at our Too Much Information blog.

Topics for this podcast: *Continuent extends MySQL replication to Oracle Database *CFEngine updates server automation software *Devops moving mainstream *Neo Technology integrates with Spring *451 CAOS report from Hadoop World iTunes or direct download (26:56, 4.6MB)

B&N asks DoJ to investigate Microsoft patent tactics. Fedora 16. And more.

Signs that the devops are coming — both in the form of new software engineers and system administrators that are working more closely together for collaboration and in new automation and agile technologies, many of them open source — continue to highlight the movement of continuous integration and continuous management of applications into more mainstream [...]

Linux and open source software are spreading out — cloud computing, mobile computing, supercomputing — and an increasing number of use cases large and small. One area where Linux and open source have history and continue to remain strong is banking and financial services, highlighted by the latest open source messaging technology in the space: [...]

Cloudera raises $40m. Accel announces $100m fund. Rackspace takes OpenStack private. And more.

Microsoft contributes to Samba. Basho raises another $5m. And more.

Appcelerator raises $15m. Hortonworks launches Data Platform. And more.