Topics for this podcast:
*Hadoop v1.0 and year ahead
*Oracle-Cloudera deal for more Hadoop
*Oracle’s ‘Sun spot’ with Solaris
*Open Source M&A outlook for 2012
*Our new MySQL/NoSQL/NewSQL survey
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Talend delivers v5. Zentyal raises series A. The TCO of OSS. And more.
# Talend announced version 5 of its data integration suite, adding business process management capabilities via an OEM relationship with BonitaSoft. Yves De Montcheuil explained the name changes in version 5.
# Zentyal closed a series A venture capital funding of over $1m by Open Ocean Capital.
# The London School of Economics released a report on the total cost of ownership of open source software.
# Couchbase announced the availability of the Couchbase Hadoop Connector, developed in conjunction with Cloudera.
# Rackspace announced the private beta of Rackspace MySQL Cloud Database.
# The debate over the role of open source foundations in the Git era continued, including a follow-up by the instigator, Mikael Rogers, a rallying cry for autonomy from Ceki Gülcü, and Simon Phipps warning about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
# Marco Abis is stepping down as CEO of Sourcesense.
# NGINX usage has grown almost 300% over the last year, according to Netcraft figures discussed by Royal Pingdom.
# The Wireless Innovation Forum announced the formation of the Open Source Framework for Commercial Baseband Software project.
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.
Cloudera raises $40m. Accel announces $100m fund. Rackspace takes OpenStack private. And more.
# Cloudera raised $40m in series D funding and announced a partnership with NetApp around its NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop.
# Accel Partners launched a $100m Big Data Fund to invest in Hadoop- and NoSQL-related vendors.
# Rackspace launched Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition, based on OpenStack.
# Quest Software released Toad for Cloud Databases – Community Edition.
# Splunk launched Splunk Enterprise for Hadoop to provide integration between Splunk and Apache Hadoop.
# Continuent announced supported MySQL-To-Oracle replication with Tungsten Replicator.
# Hadapt announced early access for Hadapt 1.0, combining Hadoop with relational databases.
# StackIQ announced the immediate availability of Rocks+ 6.
# MapR Technologies and Lucid Imagination announced a strategic partnership.
# Cloudera formed a strategic partnership with Karmasphere.
# EnterpriseDB announced Postgres Plus Connector for Hadoop.
# SCO Group, or what’s left of it, asked the US District Court for the District of Utah to reopen its litigation against IBM.
# Abiquo announced version 2.0 of its self-service cloud configuration and management software.
# Ian Skerrett reported on John Swainson’s key success factors for open source strategies.
# Gorilla Logic announced FoneMonkey for Android,
DOCOMO adopts, invests in Couchbase. Apache Cassandra reaches 1.0. And more.
# DOCOMO Innovations adopted Couchbase as DOCOMO Capital invested in the NoSQL database vendor.
# The Apache Software Foundation announced Apache Cassandra v1.0.
# Nuxeo announced the availability of Nuxeo Cloud.
# SGI formed a distribution relationship with Cloudera and announced a record-breaking performance benchmark.
# Rapid7 announced the launch of Metasploit Community Edition.
# VoltDB announced the general availability of VoltOne.
# Juniper Networks licensed OpenNMS to add fault and performance management capabilities to the Junos Space software platform.
# The Free Software Foundation warned against Microsoft’s “Secure Boot” system.
InternetNews.com yesterday published an article based on an interview with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst asking the question “Is Red Hat Interested in the Database Market?”
In truth there was no real need to ask the question, as Whitehurst’s comments made it pretty clear that Red Hat is interested in the database market, and specifically the NoSQL database market.
“When I say I don’t want to be a database company, I’m saying that I don’t want to be a SQL database company,” Whitehurst said.
In case the implications of that statement were not entirely clear, he later added:
“But we would be very interested in a NoSQL type database or Hadoop type thing,” Whitehurst said. “Those are interesting as they represent net new.”
The article adds that Whitehurst would not specifically state whether Red Hat will or will not actually acquire anyone, as is to be expected, but the comments are the clearest indication yet that Red Hat sees value in a potential NoSQL acquisition.
This is something that we have seen for some time, pointing out in May 2010 that “We have consistently noted that the database remains a missing layer in Red Hat’s software stack… and would see advantages in adding an open source NoSQL database to its portfolio to target MySQL users.”
We are by no means the only people to have highlighted the database-shaped hole in Red Hat’s portfolio, but while Red hat has previously shied away from speculation linking it with a relational database vendor (seemingly in order to avoid disrupting its relationship with Oracle) as Jim points out, NoSQL and Hadoop are far more attractive given their growth is based on new projects, rather than the much tougher proposition of competing for incumbent database projects.
So what emerging open source projects might be of interest to Red Hat? Its OpenShift PaaS launched with support for 10gen’s MongoDB and later added support for Couchbase’s Membase, which makes them obvious contenders. We suspect that avoiding overlap and delivering compatibility with Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise Data Grid technology would be a key part of the decision-making process.
As for Hadoop – Cloudera is the obvious choice but we imagine that any move would be likely to start a bidding war from which Red Hat might not emerge victorious. Hortonworks has only just emerged from Yahoo, of course, but might be an option for a more services-led approach.
Then there is DataStax, which could give Red Hat the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone with its Brisk Hadoop distribution and Apache Cassandra-related software and services.
InternetNews.com yesterday published an article based on an interview with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst asking the question “Is Red Hat Interested in the Database Market?”
In truth there was no real need to ask the question, as Whitehurst’s comments made it pretty clear that Red Hat is interested in the database market, and specifically the NoSQL database market.
“When I say I don’t want to be a database company, I’m saying that I don’t want to be a SQL database company,” Whitehurst said.
In case the implications of that statement were not entirely clear, he later added:
“But we would be very interested in a NoSQL type database or Hadoop type thing,” Whitehurst said. “Those are interesting as they represent net new.”
The article adds that Whitehurst would not specifically state whether Red Hat will or will not actually acquire anyone, as is to be expected, but the comments are the clearest indication yet that Red Hat sees value in a potential NoSQL acquisition.
This is something that we have seen for some time, pointing out in May 2010 that “We have consistently noted that the database remains a missing layer in Red Hat’s software stack… and would see advantages in adding an open source NoSQL database to its portfolio to target MySQL users.”
We are by no means the only people to have highlighted the database-shaped hole in Red Hat’s portfolio, but while Red hat has previously shied away from speculation linking it with a relational database vendor (seemingly in order to avoid disrupting its relationship with Oracle) as Jim points out, NoSQL and Hadoop are far more attractive given their growth is based on new projects, rather than the much tougher proposition of competing for incumbent database projects.
So what emerging open source projects might be of interest to Red Hat? Its OpenShift PaaS launched with support for 10gen’s MongoDB and later added support for Couchbase’s Membase, which makes them obvious contenders. We suspect that avoiding overlap and delivering compatibility with Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise Data Grid technology would be a key part of the decision-making process.
As for Hadoop – Cloudera is the obvious choice but we imagine that any move would be likely to start a bidding war from which Red Hat might not emerge victorious. Hortonworks has only just emerged from Yahoo, of course, but might be an option for a more services-led approach.
Then there is DataStax, which could give Red Hat the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone with its Brisk Hadoop distribution and Apache Cassandra-related software and services.
Google and Microsoft trade patent claims. Actuate announces Q2 results. And more.
# Google accused Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies of organising a hostile patent campaign against Android. That prompted Microsoft executives to claim that Microsoft invited Google to be involved in the CPTN purchase of Novell’s patents. However, Google explained that joining CPTN might have decreased its ability to defend itself against potential patent claims.
# Actuate announced its Q2 financial results, including BIRT-related license business of $5.3m, up 130% year-over-year.
# Dell and Cloudera announced a combined hardware, software, support and services offering for Apache Hadoop.
# France and Tunisia have signed a joint declaration on governmental cooperation on open source software.
# Mitchell Baker explained the Mozilla Foundation’s Gecko project.
# VisionMobile published a report assessing the relative openness of Android, MeeGo, Linux, Qt, WebKit, Mozilla, Eclipse and Symbian.
# Sandro Groganz published an article on the benefits of the community for partners of open source vendors.
# Twitter announced plans to release its Storm distributed stream processing software as an open source project.
# Georg Greve discussed his perspective on freedom in the cloud.
# MySQL performance specialist Percona celebrated its fifth birthday, now with 50 employees and 1,200 customers.
A herd of Hadoop announcements. Rockmelt raises $30m. And more.
A herd of Hadoop announcements
# Yahoo! and Benchmark Capital confirmed the formation of Hortonworks, an independent company focused on the development and support of Apache Hadoop.
# Cloudera announced the availability of Cloudera Enterprise 3.5 and the launch of Cloudera SCM Express, based on the new Service and Configuration Manager in Cloudera Enterprise 3.5.
# MapR announced the availability of the M3 and M5 editions of its Distribution for Apache Hadoop.
# Platform Computing announced it has signed the Apache Corporate Contributor License Agreement allowing the company to contribute to the Apache Hadoop project, and launched its Platform MapReduce runtime engine.
# Platfora is another new company hoping to make its mark with Hadoop.
# Karmasphere launched the Karmasphere Studio Community Hadoop Virtual Appliance for developers.
# StackIQ announced the beta release of Rocks+ Big Data, a cluster automation offering for Apache Hadoop.
The best of the rest
# Rockmelt raised $30m in a series B funding round led by Accel Partners, Khosla Ventures and existing investor Andreessen Horowitz.
# BeyondTrust acquired Likewise Software’s Likewise Enterprise and Likewise Open products, re-branding them as PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise and Open Edition, leaving Likewise focusing on its open source-based Likewise Storage Services product.
# Basho Technologies named Donald J. Rippert, former chief technology officer of Accenture, as president and chief executive officer and closed the remainder of its previously announced funding round.
# Matt Asay compared VMware and Red Hat’s approaches to open source PaaS.
# Miguel de Icaza provided an update on the formation of Xamarin.
# Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile suggested that it is a sin to use open source software without contributing money or time, prompting a predictable response from Pentaho inviting guilt-free use of its offerings.
# EnterpriseDB announced the general availability of Postgres Plus Advanced Server 9.0.
# CASH Music highlighted the problems faced by open source groups filing for federal 501(c)(3) non-profit status.
# Microsoft signed Android-related patent deals with Onkyo and Velocity Micro.
# Talend announced that its announced that MDM Enterprise Edition, open source Master Data Management software can now handle more than 100 million records on a single $1200 server.
# Shadow-Soft signed a deal with SkySQL enabling it to resell SkySQL products, training and services in the U.S.
A herd of Hadoop announcements. Rockmelt raises $30m. And more.
A herd of Hadoop announcements
# Yahoo! and Benchmark Capital confirmed the formation of Hortonworks, an independent company focused on the development and support of Apache Hadoop.
# Cloudera announced the availability of Cloudera Enterprise 3.5 and the launch of Cloudera SCM Express, based on the new Service and Configuration Manager in Cloudera Enterprise 3.5.
# MapR announced the availability of the M3 and M5 editions of its Distribution for Apache Hadoop.
# Platform Computing announced it has signed the Apache Corporate Contributor License Agreement allowing the company to contribute to the Apache Hadoop project, and launched its Platform MapReduce runtime engine.
# Platfora is another new company hoping to make its mark with Hadoop.
# Karmasphere launched the Karmasphere Studio Community Hadoop Virtual Appliance for developers.
# StackIQ announced the beta release of Rocks+ Big Data, a cluster automation offering for Apache Hadoop.
The best of the rest
# Rockmelt raised $30m in a series B funding round led by Accel Partners, Khosla Ventures and existing investor Andreessen Horowitz.
# BeyondTrust acquired Likewise Software’s Likewise Enterprise and Likewise Open products, re-branding them as PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise and Open Edition, leaving Likewise focusing on its open source-based Likewise Storage Services product.
# Basho Technologies named Donald J. Rippert, former chief technology officer of Accenture, as president and chief executive officer and closed the remainder of its previously announced funding round.
# Matt Asay compared VMware and Red Hat’s approaches to open source PaaS.
# Miguel de Icaza provided an update on the formation of Xamarin.
# Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile suggested that it is a sin to use open source software without contributing money or time, prompting a predictable response from Pentaho inviting guilt-free use of its offerings.
# EnterpriseDB announced the general availability of Postgres Plus Advanced Server 9.0.
# CASH Music highlighted the problems faced by open source groups filing for federal 501(c)(3) non-profit status.
# Microsoft signed Android-related patent deals with Onkyo and Velocity Micro.
# Talend announced that its announced that MDM Enterprise Edition, open source Master Data Management software can now handle more than 100 million records on a single $1200 server.
# Shadow-Soft signed a deal with SkySQL enabling it to resell SkySQL products, training and services in the U.S.