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As Microsoft Powers Yahoo!'s Search, Whither Yahoo!'s Open Efforts?

Back when Microsoft was actively pursuing an acquisition of Yahoo!, only to withdraw its bid, many observers felt that the withdrawal was good news for Yahoo!'s many open source and open initiatives. But we made the point back then that the game might just have begun. From Yahoo!'s open strategy for developers, to its Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI), to the company's reliance on Hadoop for advanced fast queries, Yahoo! has always been a strong supporter of open standards. Yahoo!'s entire site runs on FreeBSD--a free operating system descended from AT&T Unix.

Microsoft still isn't acquiring Yahoo!, but it has struck a far-reaching search deal with the company. What are the implications for Yahoo!'s many open source and open standards initiatives?



A Collection of Open Source Cloud Resources

When North Bridge Partners did its Future of Open Source Survey earlier this year, and respondents were asked which trends are having the greatest impact on commercial open source players, Software as a Service (Saas) was ranked number one. Cloud computing, which is inextricably linked with SaaS, was also ranked very highly. As more and more people favor online hosted applications, the world of open source has to respond, and it already is. In this post, you'll find several good resources on cloud and SaaS solutions as they relate to open source.


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Missing: Dell Ubuntu desktop PCs. The VAR Guy explores whether Dell has stopped selling Ubuntu desktop computers.

Open source Hive: Large-scale, distributed data processing made easy. Hive is a data analysis and query front end for Hadoop that makes Hadoop data files look like SQL tables.

Microsoft opened Linux-driver code after violating GPL. Did it act simply to head off any potentially embarrassing legal disputes over violations?

SpringSource and MindTouch seek to redefine the application server. Spurred by economic pressures on IT departments, new breeds of app servers are taking shape.

The tech jobs that the cloud will eliminate. IT pros face new competition for their jobs from cloud services. Which jobs go, and which become more valuable?



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Hadoop and MapReduce are cheap and scalable for clustered queries, but they're slower than relational databases. Yale researchers have an improvement.

The Ubuntu Linux app store: fact or fiction? The emerging app store, which offers Ubuntu Linux and Debian applications, wasn?t built by Canonical.

Linux slips into Microsoft's warm, deadly embrace. How Microsoft will use the GPL to mount a serious backdoor assault on the core of the Linux platform.

Is Microsoft's GPL2 support really a big deal? It's recently released code is only for Linux Virtual Machines on Windows, not physical Linux servers and Linux desktops.

Red Hat is wrong to insist Microsoft disavow litigation. Did IBM, HP, Oracle, or even Red Hat ever declare that they will never, ever sue open source developers over patent infringements?

Palm's Linux secret makes the Pre. Palm Pre is no thriller as a smartphone, but the SDK reveals the most open mobile platform on the market.



Red Hat's Open Source Cloud Forum--Free Online, Top Speakers

Red Hat is hosting an Open Source Cloud Computing Forum event all day next Wednesday, July 22nd. It will take place in webinar format, so anyone is free to attend online, although you must register here. Sessions will also be available online after the event, for playback. The roster of speakers looks very impressive, and it looks like the discussions won't focus solely on Red Hat's own cloud efforts. There are top representatives from cutting-edge open source cloud players such as Eucalyptus Systems and Cloudera, for example.


Chrome OS, Android, and Other Trends Boost Open Source Jobs

Last week, in a post called Open Source Skills As a Job Seeker's Key Differentiator, I provided a chart showing rapid growth in jobs available for people with open source skills for platforms such as Drupal and Joomla. The trend is up while the economy is down. We've done several other posts on how open source skills can arm a college graduate looking for tech work, or a recently laid off worker, with powerful calling cards for finding employment. That's why Glyn Moody's post today, Will Chrome OS Burnish the Open Source Jobs Market? caught my eye. He makes a number of good points, and the trend he points to is likely to spread out with several beneficial results.?