Who needs databases? Orchestrate closes massive $3M seed round to turn NoSQL into NoDB

Who needs SQL? In fact, who needs databases?

¡Más dinero! BPM solutions provider BonitaSoft raises $13M

BonitaSoft, the business process management (BPM) solutions provider, announced today it has raised $13 million it its third round of funding thus far.

LucidWorks pulls in $10M to turn open source data into ‘business gold’

Big data startup LucidWorks has raised $10 million to help enterprise companies "turn multi-structured data into business gold."

White House drafts official Open Data Policy of the United States … on GitHub

"Today's news marks the first time a government entity has published law as a living, collaborative document," Balter said. "We're excited to see how the Open Data Policy evolves with the input of the community, and we hope this is just the first of many."

VMware’s new partnership with Canonical is a thumbs-up for OpenStack

Canonical and VMware announced today a partnership that will enable customers to run efficient OpenStack clouds using the two sets of technologies.

Red Hat to repurchase another $300M of its own stock

Pioneering open-source solution vendor Red Hat (RHT) announced today that its board had authorized a $300 million stock buyback program.

OpenCoin raises seed round so ‘anyone in the world can trade any amount of money in any currency’

OpenCoin is a startup building a simple, global, open currency system. Today, the company announced closing an angel round of funding to expand the Ripple protocol, a virtual currency and payments system that allows "anyone in the world to trade any amount of money in any currency."

Have spare time, dev skills? See what open-source projects need your help with this flowchart

We all know open-source software is a good thing and good people give back to their communities. This site just makes it really easy to start following through on those values.

Rackspace snaps up open-source database firm ObjectRocket

Cloud computing giant Rackspace has made a small but smart acquisition in ObjectRocket, a version of the MongoDB database that makes it lightning fast.

Hiring managers: “A good Linux-head is hard to find”

Know Linux? You're in for a job or two. A new report shows Linux experience is in greater demand -- and, hiring managers say, harder to find -- than in past years.

The Ubuntu smartphone cometh — to the Galaxy Nexus, specifically

Linux diehards, rejoice! The Ubuntu smartphone is coming, and it’ll be here in about eight months.

Ubuntu for smartphones will use all four corners of the screen, giving us what Ubuntu maker Canonical calls “a more immersive experience” than the …

Think Big Analytics nabs $3M to help you with Hadoop

The Mountain View Calif. based startup leverages open source computing framework Hadoop and NoSQL to bring "big data" to large companies.

Piston Cloud nabs $8M to bolster open source cloud adoption

Today, Openstack private cloud player, Piston Cloud closed an $8 million funding round. Investors see potential in the space, despite that it has become increasingly flooded with competitors, such as Hewlett-Packard and Rackspace.

Rackspace reveals the strategy behind its ‘open cloud’ vision

Cloud computing giant Rackspace has announced plans to partner up with the leading providers of open source data centers.