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GNU founder Stallman: ‘Open source is not free software’
Interviewing Richard Stallman is a challenge. The terms sheet for the interview carries a half dozen caveats and requests, most relating to Stallman’s desire to not be identified as an advocate for open source software. There’s also a long suggested reading list of articles and FAQs on the GNU.org website he founded that carefully lay ...
Qubole releases Kafka ingestion, conversion service to open source
Less than three weeks after open-sourcing its Quark cost-based SQL optimizer, big data-as-a-service provider Qubole Inc. is at it again. Coincident with Kafka Summit taking place in San Francisco this week, Qubole said it’s releasing its StreamX ingestion service under an Apache open source license. StreamX is used to efficiently and reliably capture large scale, ...
Oracle blitzes sales and marketing pros with new cloud options
It looks like Oracle is tired of watching Salesforce.com Inc. have all the fun. The database giant is unleashing a torrent of new marketing-oriented products and services today at a quartet of customer experience-focused conferences it’s holding in Las Vegas for customer service, e-commerce, sales and marketing professionals. Collectively, the new capabilities are intended to ...
Survey finds tech professionals are a footloose bunch
Watch out San Francisco; New York is out to get you. At least that’s what it would seem from the opinions expressed by users of the anonymous tech recruiting site Woo. The startup munged through the profiles of 5,000 of its users to find out what technology professionals care about, where they want to live, ...
Microsoft narrowly misses Q3 net, but cloud business is booming
Not yet. Microsoft narrowly missed analysts estimates and earnings and all but matched revenue expectations in the fiscal third quarter, but it offered weaker-than-expected guidance for the year, knocking its shares down in immediate after-hours trading and perhaps obscuring the bigger growth story. Revenues were down about six percent over the year-earlier quarter, but not ...
Spark muscling in on Hadoop’s territory, says Wikibon analyst
Is Apache Spark the successor to Hadoop? Some people think so. Given the batch-oriented Hadoop’s complexity and the notorious performance problems of the MapReduce processing framework and the components that depend upon it, the integration and speed that the in-memory Spark analytics engine brings to the table has a lot of appeal. The big news ...
MemSQL raises $36M to advance its in-memory analytical database
MemSQL Inc., developer of a scalable SQL-based in-memory distributed database, closed an over-subscribed series C financing round of $36 million, bringing its total funding to $85 million and setting the stage for international expansion. Previous investors Accel Partners LP, Khosla Ventures LLC, Data Collective, IA Ventures and First Round Capital all bought in to the ...
Canonical courts enterprises, developers with new Ubuntu release
With a newly signed deal with longtime antagonist Microsoft under its belt, Canonical Ltd. is rolling out the sixth major release of Ubuntu Long-Term Support (LTS), adding features that should improve the Linux distribution’s appeal to developers and enterprises. An LTS release is supported and maintained by Canonical for five years, making it an attractive choice for long-term, ...
EMC misses earnings target but says Dell merger is on track
EMC isn’t doing itself any favors in helping along its merger with Dell Inc. The storage giant reported weaker-than-expected earnings this morning, citing an “excess of unfulfilled orders.” Earnings per share were 31 cents, flat from a year ago and two cents below consensus analyst estimates. Revenue was down 2.5 percent to $5.48 billion, also below ...
Upbeat VMware says future’s so bright it’s gotta wear shades
Looks like things aren’t so troubled at VMware Inc. after all. Coming off the first quarter of what management has termed a “transition year,” and following a string of executive departures as well as confusion about its cloud strategy, the virtualization giant beat first-quarter revenue and earnings estimates, reaffirmed guidance for the year and surprised investors ...