A couple of ex-Facebook engineers have just launched MemSQL, an in-memory database system which claims to be 30x times faster than conventional databases on disk
10gen, the company responsible for MongoDB, has just announced the closure of a $42m Series E funding round led by New Enterprise Associates
Dart’s server-side ambitions were given a big boost over the weekend with the release of mod_dart, a module that embeds the Dart VM directly into Apache
GitHub, the social coding site based on Linus Torvaldss version control system (DVCS) Git, has released a graphical client for Windows
A Rule 50 motion filed late last night by lawyers working for Google may significantly shift the course of the Oracle v. Google trial
Micro-blogging service Twitter has become the latest of Silicon Valleys tech giants to sponsor the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
In a move thats already causing raised eyebrows in the open source community, blogger and analyst Florian Müller has signed on with database giant Oracle
Red Hat has been upping its contributions to the cloud platform OpenStack, according to statistics published last week
A new study by Sonatype and Aspect Security reveals 41 million downloads of vulnerable open source components in a year
Red Hats popular platform as a service (PaaS) offering, OpenShift, will be fully open source in the very near future, according to a recent update to the products FAQ
The team behind Googles Dart programming language has released version 0.08 of the languages official specification
Scala and Dart are still stuck in the #50-#100 bracket of the TIOBE rankings, behind languages such as Lua and Groovy
The Eclipse Foundation has announced the release of version 0.4 of Orion, its browser-based IDE for web development
Potix has announced the release of version 6.0.0 of its open souce web application framework ZK, with a host of new features
