Open Source Heroes: Brian Behlendorf
I can’t think of anyone who has had a more epic impact on the history of open source software than Brian Behlendorf. He’s the co-founder and/or board member of a raft of open source communities, including: Apache Group, which became the Apache Foundation Mozilla CollabNet Benetech Electronic Frontier Foundation He’s worked at the White House […]
HP Moves its Public Cloud Into Publicly Available Beta
Since the announcement last week that Citrix would be moving it’s CloudStack product to Apache, some of the move vociferous support for OpenStack has come from HP, a company that is an active member of OpenStack and has a private beta offering built on top of OpenStack out in the wild. Today it becomes obvious […]
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 […]
