ADT Mag: "After corporate failure, open source RethinkDB lives on under The Linux Foundation"
When his company that backed the open source NoSQL RethinkDB project failed commercially last October, co-founder Slava Akhmechet said: “We’re brainstorming together how to transition RethinkDB to a self-sustaining open source project … if there is a way...
February 7, 2017
SD Times: "CNCF saves RethinkDB by purchasing code and contributing it to the Linux Foundation"
CNCF paid US$25,000 to purchase the RethinkDB copyright and the assets, and then it relicensed the software under the Apache License 2.0, which is considered one of the most popular permissive software licenses, allowing anyone to use the...
February 6, 2017
TechCrunch: "The Cloud Native Compute Foundation acquires RethinkDB’s source code"
Here’s some unusual news: the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced that it has acquired the RethinkDB copyright and assets, including its code, and contributed it to The Linux Foundation. RethinkDB, which had raised about $12.2 million...
February 6, 2017
InfoWorld: "RethinkDB finds a new home at the Linux Foundation"
RethinkDB may have failed as a business, but it’s getting new life as part of the Linux Foundation. As announced today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has purchased the RethinkDB intellectual property assets for $25,000, which it...
February 6, 2017
Enterprise Apps Today: "Linux Foundation takes ownership of RethinkDB code"
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced on Feb. 6 that it paid $25,000 to acquire all of the RethinkDB code, copyrights and assets. The CNCF then re-licensed all the code under the Apache Software License version two, which...
February 6, 2017
CNCF purchases RethinkDB source code and contributes it to The Linux Foundation under the Apache license
CNCF has purchased the source code to the RethinkDB database, relicensed the code under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (ASLv2) and contributed it to The Linux Foundation. RethinkDBTM is an open source, NoSQL, distributed document-oriented database that is...
February 6, 2017
Why CNCF recommends Apache-2.0
By Dan Kohn, @dankohn1, CNCF Executive Director February 1, 2017 The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) believes that the best software license for open source projects today is the Apache-2.0 license (Apache-2.0). Our goal is to enable the...
February 1, 2017 | By Dan Kohn
Cloud Native Computing Foundation announces keynotes and full agenda for CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe
Accenture, FINN.no / Schibsted, Salesforce, Ticketmaster, and Yahoo will speak to the cloud native community March 29-30 in Berlin SAN FRANCISCO – January 26, 2017 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which is sustaining and integrating open source technologies to orchestrate containers of...
January 26, 2017
OStatic: "Cloud Native Computing Foundation hosts Linkerd open source project"
When The Linux Foundation announced the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2015, its members already represented some of the most powerful technology and open source leaders around.
January 24, 2017
TechCrunch: "Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds Linkerd as its fifth hosted project"
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the open source group that’s also the home of the popular Kubernetes container management system, today announced that it has added Linkerd as its fifth hosted project. .
January 23, 2017