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Explosive growth expected for Hadoop, MapReduce-related revenues: IDC

The market for software related to the Hadoop and MapReduce programming frameworks for large-scale data analysis will jump from $77 million in 2011 to $812.8 million in 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 60.2 percent, according to analyst firm IDC.

IBM set to replace Siebel with open-source SugarCRM

IBM is planning to replace its Siebel-based customer relationship management (CRM) products with software owned by open source software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor SugarCRM, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Oracle upgrades standard Java, JavaFX

Enhancements include first delivery of SDKs for Mac OS X, along with garbage collection and virtual machine boosts

Google details Chrome browser security-testing technology

Since late last year, Google has been using an industrial-strength testing system to identify, analyze and fix security holes in its Chrome browser, helping it significantly cut down on the number of vulnerabilities that slip through to the most recent version product in production.

Microsoft to support ODF 1.2 open document standard in Office 15

Microsoft has demonstrated support for the Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2 standard in a technical preview of the forthcoming Office 15 productivity suite, and plans to release a beta version with the feature late this summer.

Rackspace launches new OpenStack-based cloud portfolio

Company unveils array of new services, including a MySQL offering optimized for the cloud

Microsoft forms subsidiary to engage with open source communities

The new business unit, called Microsoft Open Technologies, will address the gap between Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies

HP takes aim at Amazon with public cloud, virtual network components

Hewlett-Packard announced a series of open-source-based cloud offerings and added network automation capabilities to its hardware products in an attempt to carve out its piece of a market currently topped by Amazon Web Services.

Ubuntu founder pitches new tool for server provisioning

Ubuntu developer Canonical is working on a new provisioning platform called Metal as a Service (MAAS), which will be used to activate new servers, on top of which a cloud can be deployed, founder Mark Shuttleworth said in a blog post.

SAP goes after SAS, IBM with predictive analytics software

SAP is hoping to stake out some turf in the predictive analytics software market with a new application, BusinessObjects Predictive Analysis software, which was announced Tuesday.

Microsoft counted as key Linux contributor, for now anyway

For the first time ever, and probably only temporarily, Microsoft can be counted as a key contributor to Linux.

Adobe releases open source malware classification tool

Adobe Systems has released a malware classification tool in order to help security incident first responders, malware analysts and security researchers more easily identify malicious binary files.

Apache promotes Sqoop as Top Level Project

The Apache Software Foundation connects Hadoop to databases and data warehouses with Sqoop.

Oracle updates its Linux kernel

Oracle has updated the kernel of its Linux distribution to take advantage of the latest Linux advances, the company announced Tuesday.

HP CEO: Google-Motorola deal could close-source Android

WebOS could be an important player in the long run as an open-source mobile OS because Android could become closed with Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said.

HP Readies Open-Source webOS Release

Hewlett-Packard announced plans to release the code behind webOS in September under the Apache License 2.0.

Buyers lining up for Raspberry Pi's $25 PC

Raspberry Pi Foundation's $25 PC will become available by the end of this month, and buyers hope it could fill in as a low-power desktop, while being an alternative to the more expensive open-source hardware.

Weave open-source data visualization offers power, flexibility

The project, three years in the making and still in beta, is just starting to be rolled out by government and planning agencies.

Kernel guru Greg Kroah-Hartman joins Linux Foundation

One of the principle maintainers of the Linux kernel, Greg Kroah-Hartman, has joined the Linux Foundation as a fellow, the same position held by Linux creator Linus Torvalds, the foundation announced.

Pentaho open sources 'big data' integration tools under Apache 2.0

BI vendor Pentaho is open sourcing a number of tools related to "big data" in its Kettle data-integration platform and has moved the project overall to the Apache 2.0 license, the company announced Tuesday.