This week, Yahoo plans to announce the creation a separate company called HortonWorks, based around the development and commercialization of Apache Hadoop.HortonWorks plans to use next-generation features and capabilities to create open source tools that make...
0 replies - 14440 views - 06/28/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
The PHP Fog, a cloud PaaS for PHP, will be available for developer download within the next 30 days. PHP Fog allows developers to easily scale their cloud deployment for PHP apps. Drupal and WordPress installation are made simple with a one-click feature. You...
2 replies - 23685 views - 04/28/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
Mark Reinhold just posted the new community bylaws draft for the Open JDK. Mark Wielaard, a Red Hat engineer, posted his feedback in the comments and Simon Phipps has commentary on his blog (On a scale of -10 to +10, he gave the current draft a -3). You...
5 replies - 24616 views - 02/04/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
You might remember that Apple filed an infringement suit against handset-maker HTC earlier this year based on several patents. Some saw this as an indirect attack on Android, since HTC makes the most Android phones. HTC promptly fired back with its own...
0 replies - 10945 views - 06/27/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Ari Balogh, who joined Yahoo in 2008, has recently resigned from his post as the company's CTO and head of products. Balogh, who will leave his position on June 3rd, cited personal family reasons for his departure. Meanwhile, Yahoo is possibly talking to...
0 replies - 11959 views - 04/11/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
EU Expected to Approve Microsoft-Yahoo Team-up The EU is set to approve the search outsourcing deal between Yahoo and Microsoft, reports Reuters. The announcement could come any time between now and Friday, February 19th, which is the deadline for a...
0 replies - 12756 views - 02/17/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Recently I have been doing some research on tweaking websites to make them faster (either in reality, or at least in appearance to the client). Specifically the research has been focused on the actual client tier interaction - requesting the page, downloading...
1 replies - 7821 views - 12/09/09 by Craig Dickson in Articles
So one day, Scott McNealy, founder and chairman of Sun, read in his morning newspaper how the use of Java was rapidly diminishing, courtesy of something called 'The LAMP Stack'. Furiously, he called his accountant.
0 replies - 16892 views - 02/03/08 by Ivo Jansch in News
Disclaimer: I have great respect for both Microsoft and Yahoo! and merely wish to provide humorous editorial banter. With the wording of Microsoft's letter to Yahoo seeming all but imminent, but the phrasing clearly being that of a merger:I am writing on...
3 replies - 6629 views - 02/01/08 by Jim Bethancourt in News
