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Posted on August 22nd, 2013 by admin
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Today Yammer announced two public, open-source SDKs for its social enterprise communications service: one for Windows Phone 8 and one for iOS. Android, for now, remains on the outside of the Yammer love circle. The APIs will, according to the Microsoft subsidiary, work for smartphone and tablet applications (presumably this means iPads and not Windows […]
Posted on August 14th, 2013 by admin
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Last week’s OSCON conference served to remind us that open source software is setting the pace. Tweet This Post
Posted on August 5th, 2013 by admin
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Cloudscaling CTO Randy Bias wrote an open letter to OpenStack today. In it he outlines why the open cloud effort will only win if it accepts Amazon Web Services (AWS) and creates a compatible API. He argues that AWS is the defacto leader. The solution: OpenStack should stop trying to build out its own differentiated […]
Posted on July 28th, 2013 by admin
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Pluralsight, the online training resource targeting professional developers that announced its raise of $27.5 million from Insight Venture Partners earlier this year, is now putting that funding to use. The company, whose corporate users include Microsoft, Salesforce, Twitter, Facebook, Dell, HP, Intel, Disney, EMC and others, is acquiring PeepCode, a similar resource providing video tutorials on a […]
Posted on July 24th, 2013 by admin
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BonitaSoft, a provider of an open source business process management (BPM) solution, has raised a $13 million Series C round led by the FSN PME Fund, a French government initiative to invest in technology companies to help them scale globally. Also joining the round are previous investors Ventech, Auriga Partners, and Serena Capital. The new […]
Posted on May 19th, 2013 by admin
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Data visualization software company Tableau Software, going by the symbol “DATA,” will start trading tomorrow on the New York Stock Exchange at $31 per share, up from earlier today when the company said it would trade in the $28 to $30 range. Tableau will offer 8.2 million shares of its Class A common stock, up […]
Posted on May 18th, 2013 by admin
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Open Compute will develop a specification and a reference box for an open networking switch and will do so from the ground up in the fashion of open-source software efforts, such as those developed by the Apache Foundation. The OS-agnostic, top-of-rack switch will be the first developed as an open-source project with the spec developed by […]
Posted on May 11th, 2013 by admin
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Duedil has raised $5 million for its platform that uses open data to help companies conduct due diligence. The Series A round was led by Notion Capital. Also participating were Oak Investment Partners as well as Passion Capital and Spotify investor Shakil Khan. With the funding, Duedil is hiring data scientists and beefing up its resources for expansion. […]
Posted on April 13th, 2013 by admin
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ownCloud is a free software suite, written in PHP, that provides file storage, synchronization, and sharing. It provides the same basic features of Dropbox or Box.net. It also provides a whole lot more. ownCloud was started three years ago when Frank Karlitschek wanted a free software alternative to proprietary solutions. In the time since the […]
Posted on February 25th, 2013 by admin
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