Open Source Insider
March 2016
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Red Hat program programme: no-cost RHEL developer subs
31 Mar 2016 -
Microsoft Build 2016: what Microsoft didn't say
30 Mar 2016 -
EMC not square, opens new code streams to GitHub
23 Mar 2016
Red Hat has announced the availability of a no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) subscription, available as part of the Red Hat Developer Program.
This week sees the Microsoft Build 2016 developer convention and symposium staged in San Francisco.
EMC's Enterprise Content Division (ECD) has announced enhancements to its developer programme by making a new body of open source code accessible to users on GitHub.
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Apache open source Java tool for PDF work
21 Mar 2016 -
New York senate advocates open source developer tax credit
19 Mar 2016 -
Black Duck's open source 'rookies of the year' 2015
16 Mar 2016 -
DataStax : developers bemoan lack of NoSQL skills
15 Mar 2016 -
Chef drills dependency policing into DevOps
14 Mar 2016 -
Former Microsoft CEO Ballmer changes view on Linux cancer
11 Mar 2016 -
SAP web IDE for HANA is based on Eclipse Che
10 Mar 2016
Apache PDFBox allows for the creation of new PDF documents, manipulation, rendering, signing of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents.
Much has been made recently of large scale (previously proprietary) firms adopting new uber open stances and suddenly getting the open source religion.
Black Duck's open source 'rookies of the year' 2015
DataStax has run a survey with developers worldwide -- of 273 responses, only eight per cent of those surveyed thought that there were enough skilled people available to meet demand from companies ...
Chef drills dependency policing into DevOps
Bouncing business extrovert Steve Ballmer has softened on his stance with regard to the Linux operating system, which he had famously previously derided as a cancer.
SAP has announced the availability of its SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA.
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Microsoft formally joins Eclipse Foundation
09 Mar 2016 -
Microsoft loves Linux a bit more, opens SQL Server to Linux
08 Mar 2016 -
BEAT experimental biometric e-infrastructure platform open sourced
07 Mar 2016 -
Perforce 'swarms' into Slack comms
04 Mar 2016
Pretty soon there will come a time when the news/blog headline 'Microsoft open sources xyz' ceases to be remarkable.
Microsoft has announced SQL Server 2016 with general availability later this year.
According to the Idiap Research Institute, the majority of the source code for the BEAT 'computing e-infrastructure' platform will be open and accessible next month on the institute's own GitLab ...
Perforce Software has integrated Helix Swarm (the collaboration engine within Perforce Helix) and Slack (the instant messaging and communication application).