More details are coming about Spark, the free-software Linux tablet, but enthusiasts will have to wait until May before they can get their hands on one.

A solid platform for software development The interview opened with a look at the reasons for choosing Spark. HP is building its software platform in the cloud, Landry explained.

Thanks to Android, Linux is well represented on tablets, but there hasn't been a free software tablet, without any proprietary bits, until now. The Spark, which will be based on MeeGo and use KDE ...

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SnappyData came into being in 2015 after being spun out of Pivotal Software Inc. It sells a high-performance in-memory data platform based on Spark that’s designed for mixed workload applications.

Spark had more than 465 contributors in 2014, making it the most active project in the Apache Software Foundation and among big data open source projects globally.