Open Source Insider

March 2017

• Google launches open source project 'umbrella' website

  Adrian Bridgwater 29 Mar 2017

Google has produced a new 'umbrella' website to coalesce all the search and data giant's open source projects under one virtual roof. The logically named opensource.google.com will serve as a ...

• SAP buys into blockchain, joins Hyperledger Project

  Adrian Bridgwater 26 Mar 2017

The Hyperledger Project is an open source consortium focused on development issues for blockchain, the distributed database of 'permanent' time-stamped records. Led by the Linux Foundation, ...

• GitLab 9.0: it's all about gittin' software done

  Adrian Bridgwater 23 Mar 2017

Analyst house IDC predicts that by 2018, as many as 70 percent of siloed digital transformation initiatives will ultimately fail because of insufficient collaboration, integration, sourcing or ...

• Chef automation survey: what shape is the continuous enterprise?

  Adrian Bridgwater 21 Mar 2017

Automation specialist Chef Software is, unsurprisingly perhaps, a champion of the so-called 'continuous enterprise' i.e. one in which software application development can be executed on a ...

• Amazon makes Alexa skills free, using AWS

  Adrian Bridgwater 15 Mar 2017

Amazon has announced a new programme designed to allow Alexa developers to build and host most Alexa skills using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Alexa is an 'intelligent' personal assistant developed ...

• GitHub: What is InnerSource?

  Adrian Bridgwater 14 Mar 2017

This is a contributed post which is wholly attributed to the team at GitHub, 'the home of developers' as they would like to be known. Widening open source Software developers love open source ...

• Black Duck: Struts' guts went nuts, need to patch is clearcut

  Adrian Bridgwater 13 Mar 2017

Security researchers say they have discovered an open source code vulnerability (CVE-2017-5638) in Apache Struts 2 – (report). Apache Struts is a free and open-source MVC framework for creating ...

• MongoDB Atlas adds MongoMirror, hey good lookin'

  Adrian Bridgwater 08 Mar 2017

MongoDB is an open source NoSQL cross-platform document-oriented database company favouring dynamic schemas. The firm has this month announced a new free developer-focused tier for its ...