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Facebook Open Sources Presto: Jump In to Check It Out But Don't Jump to Conclusions
For anyone who doesn’t yet know, Facebook open sourced “Presto” yesterday. What's Presto? It’s a distributed SQL engine for big data reported to run magnitudes faster than most of today’s widely used technologies that were built to handle such workloads. They include the likes of Apache Open Source
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Cloudera Changes the Data Game: 'Watch Us Become a Data Hub' #strataconf
Cloudera watchers would have to be blind to think that the company is only about Hadoop.
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dotCMS 2.5 Steers Web Content Management Platform into Cloud
The game is rapidly changing in the web content management space, with the impact of mobile, cloud and social shaping organization's WCM requirements and vendors evolving to meet those needs. Push to the Cloud dotCMS is the latest to get cloudy in this space. The Miami, FL-based content management vendor
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Datastax Makes it Easier for Developers to be Productive + Wins US$ 45 Million Investment
Larry Ellison probably won’t be celebrating Apache Cassandra’s fifth birthday today.
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Cloudant Breathes Life Into CouchDB - Merges BigCouch into Apache Project
Community is at the heart of any Apache Open Source project; its members voluntarily create and collaborate on building software products for the public good.
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This Week: Time to Get Rid of the Web Page + A Shifting Document Collaboration Market
The End of the Web Page, Advent of the Experience As marketers rethink how to deliver the kind of personalized, relevant experiences that customers expect, they must also rethink how to manage that content. The Crowded, Chaotic Document Collaboration Market Forrester Research believes that the crowded document collaboration landscape will soon refocus, with some clear
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Open Source vs. Proprietary Software: There is No Clear Winner
Everyone loves the promise of Open Source Software (OSS). It’s free (or almost free); it’s built by passionate communities of developers; you can “look under the hood”; and there’s no vendor lock-in.
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Acquia + Alfresco Join Forces for Agile, Dynamic, Multichannel Content Delivery
In the world of multichannel content delivery and management, partnerships are being formed at an astounding rate. Today, Alfresco and Acquia have announced a new partnership that will see the two open source platforms working together to provide advanced multichannel content management. Acquia, Alfresco Digital Content While both Acquia and
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BonitaSoft Raises US$ 13M for Aggressive Marketing of Open Source BPM Suite
Keeping in mind that only yesterday, France officially entered recession again, the announcement today that BonitaSoft has managed to raise another US$ 13 million in a Series C funding round led by the French government’s digital agency shows to some extent what is expected of the business process management vendor
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Joomla! 3.1 Released, Includes Integrated Tagging
Open source CMS provider Joomla! has released version 3.1 of its popular system. The minor update includes an integrated tagging system for identifying a variety of components in different ways. Tag Across Content types For those who like to organize content via tags, this will obviously be a nice addition.
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Is Proprietary Software Better, Safer than Open Source? What Univa, Alfresco, MapR, MongoDB, WANdisco Say
Companies who use Open Source software for mission critical applications are taking tremendous and unnecessary risks. So says Gary Tyreman, CEO of Univa, a Workload Automation software company offering products that unify Big Compute and Big Data.
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Who the Hadoop is Hortonworks and What Have They Just Done?
If you haven’t yet heard much about Hortonworks, the youngest of the three primary commercial vendors that develop, distribute and support Enterprise-grade Apache Hadoop, pay attention.
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Open Source DAM Solutions: More Control for Those Who Need It
When I was younger I loved taking apart gadgets to see how they worked. I’ve probably ruined thousands of dollars worth of computers and electronics over the years unscrewing and cracking open things just to see how they tick.
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SilverStripe 3.0 Open Source CMS Includes New Interface, Separate App Framework
SilverStripe released version 3.0 of its open source CMS, and it's the culmination of a year long process of developing and creating the all new system. Version 3.0 took a bit longer than the company thought it would when it announced it was working on the new version, but
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