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Yahoo makes Hadoop team independent

...File System. Yahoo was Hadoop's primary developer in 2005, though the Apache Foundation project has subsequently broadened to include contributions from many major web... Read more

29 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Yahoo delivers security, workflow tools for Hadoop

...beta releases should help Hadoop, an open-source platform administered by the Apache Foundation, to gain more widespread adoption in enterprises, Yahoo said. "Businesses across... Read more

1 July, 2010 by Ben Woods

Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation

Oracle has ceded control of the OpenOffice.org code base to the Apache Software Foundation Incubator project, it... Read more

1 June, 2011

Apache foundation quits 'proprietary' Java process

The Apache Software Foundation has resigned from the Java Community Process Executive Committee, claiming the widely-used scripting platform is completely under Oracle's control Read more

10 December, 2010 by David Meyer

Apache foundation threatens to quit Java steering group

The Apache Software Foundation could abandon the Java Community Process over Oracle's refusal to let it certify Apache Harmony, the group has warned Read more

11 November, 2010 by David Meyer

Google pulls plug on Wave, but not in Chrome

...project has continued as an open-source project as part of the Apache Foundation and is now called Apache Wave. The project is currently in... Read more

1 May, 2012

What ever happened to Dryad?

...so far is about 4,000 nodes. We are working with the Apache foundation to make some of those architecture exchanges that will take us... Read more

8 April, 2012

Oracle pushes fix for 'Apache Killer' flaw

...0 — Oracle Application Server 10g; and Apache 2.2 — Fusion Middleware 11g. Apache Foundation has brought out two releases to address the flaws in Apache... Read more

19 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Dell and Cloudera team up for integrated Hadoop stack

...Hadoop 'chomps' data Hadoop, a platform for analysing large datasets, is an Apache Foundation-administered open-source project. It evolved out of Yahoo-developed versions... Read more

5 August, 2011 by Jack Clark

Java security holes need fixing immediately

Oracle has just released another big security update, patching 17 vulnerabilities across various platforms -- except for... Read more

8 June, 2011
Five things (we bet ) you didn't know about Subversion

Five things (we bet ) you didn't know about Subversion

...systems. After ten years of community social development and now a successful Apache Foundation project, Subversion is secure and mature for the complexity of modern... Read more

15 November, 2011
SolrStation 2.0.1

SolrStation 2.0.1

SolrStation is an administration tool for the Apache Foundation's, Lucene-powered Solr enterprise search platform. SolrStation is not affiliated... Read more

18 September, 2010

Java gets new maths know-how

...mathematical and statistical components. Apache Commons was formerly a part of the Apache Foundation's Jakarta, an umbrella project for developers creating open-source software... Read more

10 August, 2009 by Matthew Broersma

What Microsoft needs to do about the Sidekick fiasco

It's nearly Wednesday, and the question of what happened to the Sidekick service remains unanswered. At one level,... Read more

13 October, 2009

Microsoft allows GPL

...Promise" and - surprise - people are positive about it. Microsoft is sponsoring the Apache Foundation which makes the leading web server. Sources elsewhere on the web... Read more

28 July, 2008

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