Open Source

Cloudera Releases Project Impala, Offers Real-Time Hadoop Analytics

“First of its kind” solution bridges the gap between Hadoop and enterprise SQL

12 years ago

MapR Releases M7 – Its Ultimate NoSQL Hadoop Platform

The flagship Hadoop product offers “zero-administartion” HBase and instant recovery

12 years ago

Google Releases Heart Of Glass Source Code

Now, developers can run their own software on the “intentionally unlocked” platform

12 years ago

Brocade Pushes SDN Strategy With Software-Only Network Appliances

Brocade delivers software-only network appliances to push SDN forward

12 years ago

I Didn’t Steal Secrets From Opera, Says Former Developer

Opera accuses Trond Werner Hansen of breach of contract and claims £2.2m in damages

12 years ago

Canadian Government Intends To Tax Bitcoins

A statement from the Canadian tax agency reveals it is keeping a close eye on the virtual currency market

12 years ago

First Firefox OS Smartphones Sell Out In Hours

Firefox OS developer handsets are already sold out

12 years ago

Government Names Open Standards Board

Standards Hub hopes to get more open source into government

12 years ago

Open Xchange: Why The World Needs Another Productivity Suite

OX Text respects file formats, says Frank Hoberg, co-founder of Open Xchange

12 years ago

First Jolla Sailfish OS Smartphone To Be Revealed In May

New smartphone will be shown off next month with Kickstarter-style pre-sale incentive programme

12 years ago

Video: Experts Weigh In On ‘Weightless’ – Part IV

Fourth part in TechWeekEurope’s video series looks at security of the Weightless standard and the purpose of the Weightless SIG

12 years ago

Firefox OS To Launch In Five Countries This June But Not UK

Firefox OS will launch in a number of European and South American nations by the end of 2013

12 years ago

HP Adds OpenStack Features To Its Converged Cloud

HP borrows cloud bursting from OpenStack, proposes new fibre channel storage blueprints

12 years ago

Lucas Nussbaum Voted New Leader Of The Debian Project

Assistant professor of computer science from University of Lorraine to oversee the development of Debian OS for the next year

12 years ago

Fujitsu Launches New SPARC64 X Enterprise Servers

Oracle and Fujitsu continue to build on their partnership with the news of new high-end Unix servers

12 years ago

Mozilla Wants A New CEO As Gary Kovacs Quits

Gary Kovacs will be stepping down later this year

12 years ago

Bitcoin Value Crashes To $105 After ‘Panic Sale’

According to Mt Gox, too much demand led to the temporary price crash

12 years ago

Why Rackspace Stood Up To Software Patent Trolls

Alan Schoenbaum, leader of the legal team at Rackspace, explains what makes software patent trolls ‘tick’

12 years ago

Six Libraries To Archive A Copy Of British Internet

The new Legal Deposit regulation will require publishers to allow qualified libraries take copies of all digital content

12 years ago

Google Drops WebKit Rendering For Chrome, Opts For Blink

Google is dropping its involvement with the WebKit rendering engine to focus on its own open source alternative

12 years ago

Mozilla And Samsung Working On A New Browser Engine

‘Servo’ engine will be made from scratch using the new ‘Rust’ programming language

12 years ago

Hadoop From MapR Heads To Ubuntu

Two open source giants collaborate on Big Data tools

12 years ago

‘Critical’ BIND Vulnerability Puts DNS Servers At Risk

A flaw reported in the handling of regular expressions means most DNS servers running on Linux or Unix are vulnerable…

12 years ago

Google Makes Open Source Patent Pledge

Google has promised not to sue open source developers and distributors over a list of 10 patents related to MapReduce,…

12 years ago

Study: Big Businesses Increase Linux Investment

Enteprise investment in Linux has grown for the third consecutive year, with rapidly increasing adoption leading to fears of a…

12 years ago

Linux Users In Spain File An Official Complaint Against Microsoft

Hispalinux demands an investigation into the use of UEFI Secure Boot protocol in Windows 8

12 years ago

PayPal Sidelines VMware For OpenStack

PayPal puts OpenStack virtualisation platform to virtualise 10,000 servers. Will the rest of eBay follow?

12 years ago

Chinese Government And Canonical Working On Bespoke OS

Chinese government looking to create a new OS for its people

12 years ago

Open-Xchange Launches Web Productivity Tools

Can OX-Text take on Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365?

12 years ago

Python Software Foundation Settles UK Trademark Dispute

The Python Software Foundation and UK-based services firm Veber said they have reached a settlement over the use of the…

12 years ago