blog Listing by Tag: open-source
Among all the announcements at Oracle Open World so far, here is a summary of those I was the most impatient to blog about.
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud
This was the largest part of Larry’s...
Today Rackspace announced it is open sourcing its cloud platform and releasing it as a project called OpenStack together with others. The code should be available for download (if not now then in a...
This week Rackspace Cloud, in conjunction with the NASA Nebula project, open sourced some of their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud software. This initiative, dubbed ‘OpenStack#8217...
VMware is poised to take another step in the creation of its own platform as a service (PaaS) after it announced the acquisition of Rabbit Technologies, the force behind the open source RabbitMQ...
Marten Mickos, of MySQL fame and who was recently appointed CEO of Eucalyptus, has hit the ground running as he tries to establish his company and open source software as a viable contender in the...
As cloud computing moves from hype to reality more discussion is centered on the old debate, as in the client/server days, between open and closed systems. Taking a shot at such proprietary platforms...
Citrix and Xen.org chose the first day of VMworld 2009 to announce an open source cloud computing initiative aimed squarely at competing with VMware (and Microsoft) in the cloud. The Xen Cloud...
VMware announced it would acquire SpringSource, an open source vendor of enterprise Java and web application development and management software, for $362 million in cash and $58 million in unvested...
