Oracle Donates OpenOffice.org To Apache: A Quick Analysis
Oracle, the database giant who bought Sun Microsystems, today announced that they are proposing to contribute OpenOffice.org code to Apache Foundation. With this move, Oracle hopes to get some positive karma from the open source community. “With today’s proposal to contribute theOpenOffice.org code to The Apache Software Foundation’s Incubator, Oracle continues to demonstrate its commitment [...]
Building a Streaming Video in the Cloud using Apple’s Darwin Server
We are in the process of building out our own streaming video server at the school, and tinkered around with Darwin from Apple for a bit. While it ended up not being the product we are going to stick with because it needs a completely different link structure than http, and it is difficult to [...]
Yahoo! Releases Its Own Hadoop Distribution
Yahoo! is releasing its own distribution of Hadoop: Hadoop is a distributed file system and parallel execution environment that enables its users to process massive amounts of data. In response to frequent requests from the Hadoop community, Yahoo! is opening up its investment in Hadoop quality engineering to benefit the larger ecosystem and to increase [...]
