Ingres partners with Red Hat
Ingres, a provider of open source database management software and support services, and open source solutions provider Red Hat plan to work closely together with independent software vendors (ISVs) in the EMEA region, reports TMCnet.
In collaboration with Red Hat, Ingres plans to provide ISVs with an enterprise-class business offering. Together, the companies will provide partners with a solution stack through the combination of three core components - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system, Ingres Database, and JBoss Enterprise Middleware.
The companies believe a combined solution will provide an independent platform on which ISVs can base applications customised to the specific requirements of customer projects.
Hadoop transforms data analysis
Behind Yahoo's push to open up Web search and advertising is software powerful enough to sort through the entire Library of Congress in less than half a minute, says Mercury News.
Yahoo's massive computing grid, Hadoop - software designed to improve search advertising - is transforming the way Yahoo and corporate giants like IBM extract meaning from enormous streams of data. "It makes it possible to actually take advantage of all the computers that we have hooked together," said Larry Heck, VP of search and advertising sciences at Yahoo.
Universities are also using the code - an open source version of software Google relies on for daily operation - to train a new generation of computer scientists and engineers.
MS responds to open source
Microsoft is offering free software to Internet and technology start-ups that are less than three years old, that are actively involved in software development and have an annual turnover of less than $1 million, states Enterpriser.
Through the Bizspark scheme, Microsoft will also provide start-ups with access to its technical support team and public relations machine. Eligible start-ups will pay a nominal fee of $100 after three years.
The introduction of BizSpark indicates Microsoft wants start-ups to defer from using open source software such as Linux. With BizSpark, Microsoft also plans to please the developer community, which frequently complains that, while open source software is freely available, Microsoft's products have always been expensive.
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