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The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise.
February 2014
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Benchmarks are worthless right?
28 Feb 2014 -
Barbie runs Linux
14 Feb 2014 -
Actian's industrialised exoskeleton for Hadoop
14 Feb 2014
OpenStack vendor Mirantis is clearly unperturbed by such naysaying and has just carried out a test on OpenStack 4.0 (Havana) deployed on IBM SoftLayer.
The latest iteration of the Barbe doll merchandise range sees everybody's favourite blonde girl step into a new role as a software application developer.
So how much reality is there in stories suggesting that many organisations have made significant Hadoop investments, but most projects are still experimental?
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Horton sees Red and goes killer
13 Feb 2014 -
How air conditioning teaches us about big data analytics in the Internet of Everything
11 Feb 2014 -
Clumsy Bird is the new open source Flappy Bird
11 Feb 2014 -
Which operating system will colonise the Internet of Things?
08 Feb 2014 -
Sex equality for all in open source
07 Feb 2014 -
Rackspace: so open, employees can compete with Rackspace
05 Feb 2014 -
SUSE kGraft patches Linux in live run time
04 Feb 2014
Horton sees Red and goes killer
A new native integration arrives this week between open source business analytics tool Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) with Storm and YARN.
A victim of its own success, Vietnamese Flappy Bird developer Dong Nguyen had started to receive death threats from gamer fans who had found the game too addictive
Will Android win or will the best API proliferation win or will a variety of operating systems win just as they have done at the desktop and on mobile?
A better title for this piece would have been "No sex please, we're open source", but that would surely have been sexist, right?
"If a Racker would like to contribute to a project that is directly competitive with Rackspace, we'd like to understand why before they contribute," writes Lindberg.
The open source world this week hears that SUSE has developed a new technology called known as kGraft for live run-time patching of the Linux kernel.
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Shouldn't we call it big 'open managed' data?
02 Feb 2014
Open source management tools (and by that term "management" we mean application deployment and release management functions, higher level automation controls and/or data and processing ...