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    Twitter growth prompts switch from MySQL to 'NoSQL' database 24 February, 2010 08:29

    Ryan King, an engineer at Twitter, today told the blog MyNoSQL that the social networking company plans to move from MySQL to the Cassandra database for what he called its resilience, scalability and large community of open-source developers.
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    Facebook joins Apache foundation 13 January, 2010 09:47

    Facebook Tuesday joined the Apache Software Foundation as a Gold sponsor, looking to cement its commitment to open source and pledging to help drive the group into the future.
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    Java EE 6 receives approval 02 December, 2009 10:57

    Java Platform Enterprise Edition (EE) 6, featuring a capability for function-based profiles, has been approved by the official Java standards body, with an implementation of the specification to follow from Sun Microsystems in about two weeks.
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    Apache readies Tomcat Java servlet container upgrade 05 November, 2009 12:26

    The Apache Software Foundation for open source projects is readying an upgrade to its Tomcat Java servlet container, with improvements eyed in areas such as scalability and security, Apache personnel said on Wednesday afternoon.
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    The A-Z of programming languages: Groovy 14 September, 2009 12:13

    Groovy’s Project Manager, Guillaume Laforge, tells the development story behind this language and why he thinks it is grooving its way into enterprises around the world.
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    Does GPL still matter? 11 August, 2009 04:00

    Jeff Haynie reached a crossroads last summer. Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, a firm that develops open source cross-platform application development software, made a decision filled with implications for his company's future. That decision: to toss away his upcoming product's Gnu General Public License (GPL), the best-known and most popular free software license, in favor of what he viewed as a more business-friendly alternative. "We initially started the product with a GPLv3 license and we decided last summer to move the license to Apache," Haynie says.
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    CIA's technology arm taps open source for enterprise search 17 June, 2009 04:03

    The company in charge of providing technology to the U.S. intelligence community has invested in an open-source firm to provide enterprise-search technology to the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
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    Yahoo seeks Hadoop boost with release of internal version 11 June, 2009 03:48

    To advance the adoption of the Hadoop technology for processing massive data sets, Yahoo will release a version of the software it has perfected to power many of its key sites and services.
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    Has Microsoft lost its war on open source? 21 April, 2009 05:58

    Is Microsoft a friend or foe of open source? Going by the company's actions, Microsoft can't seem to decide whether to make love or war. But if it's war, Microsoft appears to lack the legal weaponry to defeat or even disturb its adversaries.
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    Google open source chief: IBM/Sun deal could benefit Java 23 March, 2009 09:39

    Google's chief of open source believes an IBM acquisition of Sun could benefit the Java community, which has occasionally protested Sun's leadership role over the technology.
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    Microsoft sues Linux-based TomTom over patents 02 March, 2009 08:46

    Microsoft's lawsuit against a Linux-based technology vendor TomTom over alleged patent violations could signal a more aggressive stance by the software giant over IP issues or could be just an isolated case involving a dispute with one vendor.
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