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We're so busy seeking release from Windows that we overlooked all the ways Linux had already freed us
Why Netflix trusts Cassandra with its billions of daily reads and writes
Driven by preference for open source software 'without bifurcated code bases,' Wikipedia embraces MariaDB, a MySQL fork free of Oracle baggage
With billions of reads and writes daily, Netflix relies on NoSQL database Cassandra to replace a legacy Oracle deployment
MapR uses the LucidWorks Search, while Cloudera releases its SQL-compliant Impala
Java EE 7 and Web profile JSR gets the stamp of approval from the JCP
An engineer reveals during an industry conference how the social networking site is working to make its back-end data processing more efficient
New Sonatype survey finds 80 percent of most Java applications comes from open source
A new survey by Sonatype found widespread use of open source in businesses, but a lack of policies governing open source usage
Broadcast giant backs open source software, including Apache Hadoop distributed computing system and MySQL database