
Cloudera and Dell have partnered to deliver the industry's first total Apache Hadoop solution, which will combine Dell servers and networking components with...
0 replies - 19000 views - 08/07/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

The long-awaited social networking project from Google was revealed yesterday, dubbed Google+. It is not clear from whether or not the social network is aimed...
0 replies - 18557 views - 06/29/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

LexisNexis is set to launch open source data processing tools that supposedly outdo Hadoop, the current darling of the Big Data world. The new product line is...
0 replies - 16276 views - 06/16/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

The week begins with big news out of the Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, where Apple made three major announcements. - The iCloud will provide...
0 replies - 14947 views - 06/06/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

Mark Reinhold just posted the new community bylaws draft for the Open JDK. Mark Wielaard, a Red Hat engineer, posted his feedback in the comments and Simon...
5 replies - 28531 views - 02/04/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

A new beta release of NetBeans 7.0 is the first to provide JDK 7 support, allowing developers to choose Java 7 (still in development) as their target platform...
1 replies - 27743 views - 11/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Tweets coming out of the weekend's QCon conference revealed Oracle's plan for a premium JVM that comes with a price tag. Adam Messinger, the Oracle VP of...
4 replies - 23871 views - 11/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

The Mercurial version control system reached its 1.6 release this month, and is available for download here. The DVCS sports two major new features in 1.6. ...
2 replies - 13086 views - 07/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Mozilla quietly pushed the first beta release of Firefox 4 this week, with no feature lists or announcements yet. If you've been using 3.7 then there should...
2 replies - 12871 views - 06/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Google has just granted a patent license to the Apache Hadoop distributed computing framework, which uses a MapReduce process similar to Google's recently...
2 replies - 19253 views - 04/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose