By Matt Asay The cloud was supposed to kill open source. Instead, savvy cloud operators appear to be using open source as an on-ramp to proprietary services, giving them reason to increase …read more Source:: OpenSource
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SAS, Canonical turn silly over open source
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By Matt Asay Roughly 26 years after Linux pushed open source into mainstream enterprise adoption, we’re still debating how big a role open source should play — at least, some people are. Developers aren’t …read more Source:: OpenSource
RethinkDB finds a new home at The Linux Foundation
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By Matt Asay RethinkDB may have failed as a business, but it’s getting new life as part of The Linux Foundation. As announced today, the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) has purchased …read more Source:: OpenSource
Who’s cashing in on containers? Look to the cloud
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By Matt Asay Docker-style containers are so hot they’ve broken the scale ETR uses to measure CIO intent to purchase enterprise technology, registering “the strongest buying intention score ever recorded in …read more Source:: OpenSource
Red Hat needs to get real about the cloud
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By Matt Asay Red Hat ended 2016 with a precipitous 12 percent drop in its stock price, courtesy of its CFO’s departure and lighter-than-expected revenues. Losing a CFO to a grass-is-greener …read more Source:: OpenSource
Cloud convenience is killing the open source database
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By Matt Asay Open source has never been more important or, ironically, irrelevant. As developers increasingly embrace the cloud to shorten time to market, they’re speeding past open source, making it even …read more Source:: OpenSource
Red Hat takes application development to the bank
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By Matt Asay Ho-hum, another impressive quarter from Red Hat. The open source leader has made a habit of churning out consistent, profitable growth, even as its would-be open source peers rake in billions …read more Source:: OpenSource
What if Microsoft really did open-source Windows?
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By Matt Asay A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich wouldn’t rule out the notion that Windows might go open source. In fact, he said it was “definitely possible.” While the …read more Source:: OpenSource