Day: February 17, 2015

Pivotal Open Sources Entire Big Data Suite

As enterprise IT grows increasingly comfortable with using open source technologies, presence of enterprise vendors in the open source ecosystem grows too. Pivotal , the San Francisco-based company majority owned by EMC and VMware, whose mandate is to enable enterprise developers to build and deploy analytics-enabled software using modern agile development methods, has led three…

Linux version dilemma: Linus Torvalds is "running out of fingers and toes"

Linus Torvalds, creator and curator of the Linux kernel, has a quandary on his hands: Should he stick to Linux’s long-time tradition of massive, multple-decimal-point version numbers, or should he abandon them in favor of shorter, more easily distinguishable major versions? The problem at hand is the imminent arrival of Linux 3.20. Unlike most major…

Redgate invests in 3T, developers of a MongoDB 3.0 GUI

Cambridge, UK and Berlin, Germany 17th February 2015 – MongoDB tools startup 3T Software announced today they have received substantial investment from Redgate software, a leading SQL Server tools developer. This second round of investment for 3T brings their total capital raised to over million. 3T Software build tools for MongoDB 3.0, including MongoChef –…