Managing Hadoop servers can be a pain, but Puppet makes it easy. The open source server config automation software makes the sys-admin's job a breeze, even...
0 replies - 8702 views - 06/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
I’ve seen many a company try to migrate from Ant to Maven with varied success. There is
a change in mindset that has to come about when making the...
12 replies - 7097 views - 06/23/10 by Julian Simpson in News
What is Solr? Lucene, but done right and on steroids. The official definition is:Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from...
9 replies - 19119 views - 06/10/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
It's almost here! Tomcat 7 RC4 just went live and it includes all the goodies that we've been anticipating since October '09. Tomcat 7 will implement the...
0 replies - 19005 views - 06/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
For years, IBM has been at the top of the server game, but a new study by Gartner says that HP is the new leader in server revenues. In Q1 of 2010 HP...
0 replies - 13438 views - 05/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Google has just granted a patent license to the Apache Hadoop distributed computing framework, which uses a MapReduce process similar to Google's recently...
2 replies - 19209 views - 04/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Simon Phipps' Last Day at Sun Just a few months short of his 10th anniversary, Simon Phipps is retiring from Oracle (formerly Sun) according to his blog. ...
0 replies - 16837 views - 03/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Geronimo Gets JPA 2.0 Apache Geronimo 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.1.5-SNAPSHOT, 2.2 and 2.2.1-SNAPSHOT servers are now able to get upgrades from JEE 5's JPA 1.0 to JEE...
2 replies - 15953 views - 02/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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...
0 replies - 14830 views - 02/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Google Buzz: What's the Big Deal? While everyone seems to have lost interest in Google Wave, a new social networking tool arrived from Google this week. ...
3 replies - 18395 views - 02/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The classic Java build tool, Apache Ant, just reached its next GA version update. Ant 1.8 has improved directory scanning performance and better symbolic...
1 replies - 10940 views - 02/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Facebook Joins Apache's Sponsors Facebook officially joined Apache's roster of sponsors yesterday. Facebook has contributed to Apache projects such as...
0 replies - 13491 views - 01/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
FTC Accuses Intel of Stunting AMD Chip PerformanceIntel has been charged with illegally stifling competition by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC alleges...
0 replies - 10227 views - 12/17/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
A new version of Apache Lucene, an open source search engine, was just released. Version 3 of the Apache Lucene project is being called a "clean up...
1 replies - 12987 views - 11/28/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. recently held
early talks with Microsoft to show Wall Street Journal content, and
possibly other News Corp. publications,...
0 replies - 14500 views - 11/24/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
