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Zilliz raises $43 million as investors rush to China’s open source software

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For years, founders and investors in China had little interest in open source software because it did not seem like the most viable business model. The three-year-old Chinese startup, which builds open source software for processing unstructured data, recently closed a Series B round of $43 million.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Desktop Productivity

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I recently wrote a blog entry about LibreOffice (LO), the fork of OpenOffice.org (OOo) that came after the acquisition of Sun (the old holder/maintainer of OOo) by Oracle. I’ve been using this tool since it actually was StarOffice, more than 10 years ago, when it was first open sourced by Sun in 2000.

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Why you should care that Oracle is buying Sun

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However, today’s news that Oracle is going to buy Sun Microsystems has some very important implications. It has to do with the fact that many, many nonprofit websites and web applications are built using MySQL, the most popular open source database management system. For us, it’s generally much more removed.

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LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice.org

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OpenOffice.org is a free and open source cross-platform office suite, which can read and write MS Office.doc,xls, and.ppt files. But then … Oracle bought Sun. And the cool thing about open source software is that in situations like this, people can fork stuff. You’ll read about that one here.).

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Alternatives to MySQL

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For those of us that depend on MySQL everyday, the buyout of Sun (which had bought MySQL) by Oracle did not bode well. A decidedly biased survey by the folks behind PostgreSQL suggests that many people worry about the health of MySQL in Oracle’s hands. Switch to PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL is a different beast entirely.

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Summit invests $215M into Odoo, an open-source business management software developer, at a $2.3B+ valuation

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Open source has become a major force in the world of IT, and today a startup that has built a profitable operation by developing business management software on the principle is announcing a sizable secondary investment on the back of that growth. What is also notable is how Odoo pitches itself.

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Meet Budibase, a low-code open-source web app builder with automations

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So despite the broader downturn , it seems that 2022 may have been relatively kind to startups operating in the no- and low-code sphere, something that fledgling Northern Irish startup Budibase is capitalizing on with the announcement of a fresh $7 million tranche of funding to further develop an open source web app builder.