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Cisco declares war, embraces open source. It has a new Unified Computing initiative, and although the technology is proprietary, open source software plays a role.
Intellectual property and open source. Read an excerpt from the award-winning book of the same name.
Apache's ongoing licensing bout with Sun. The recently updated Java Specification Requests (JSRs) show that a battle continues.
15 interesting facts about the Linux kernel. Only two percent was written by Linus Torvalds.
Could Cloudera become the open source Asia? Its talent pool runs deep.
Last October, Sam introduced us to Cloudera, a company founded by highly-decorated industry veterans hoping to bring Hadoop's data processing power to a variety of businesses. Though Cloudera came into existence just last summer, it has already closed a $5 million round of Series A funding led by Accel Partners.
Cloudera has started offering commercial support for its Hadoop distribution along with a free, community-supported edition.
While certainly the names and resumes of Cloudera's founders -- Oracle and Sleepycat's Mike Olson, Google's Christophe Bisciglia, Yahoo!'s Amr Awadallah, and Facebook's Jeff Hammerbacher -- helped the fledging company secure attention and funding, don't discount that Cloudera also fills a market need.
