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• 7 years of open source: Twilio, Synopsys & Veracode

  Adrian Bridgwater 20 Oct 2017

As the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog approaches it's 1000 post since first starting in June 2010, we feature a number of comments from movers (and hopefully shakers) in this space. ...

• Huawei Kirin 970 AI processor -- an open platform & ecosystem

  Adrian Bridgwater 16 Oct 2017

Huawei Consumer Business Group has introduced its first mobile engineering offering with a distinct and dedicated Artificial Intelligence (AI) engineering chipset, the Kirin 970. Positioned as ...

• Databricks 'lays foundations' for machine learning (sorry)

  Adrian Bridgwater 03 Oct 2017

Everybody is loving that thing we're all calling machine learning aren't they? Splunk wants to make it mainstream, several other firms want to demystify it (or probably democratise it... or both) ...

• Shawn Powers on Ansible: inside the mind of a veteran sysadmin

  Adrian Bridgwater 22 Sep 2017

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider column written by Shawn Powers -- describing himself as Linux Journal editor, CBT Nuggets trainer, writer and geek all wrapped into ...

• Richard Morrell: a brief history (of life) in open source

  Adrian Bridgwater 13 Sep 2017

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog written by Richard Morrell, group CTO at Falanx Cyber Technologies and CISO of the Cloud Security Alliance. Morrell looks back ...

• Swiss financial services outfit SIX rolls for Red Hat

  Adrian Bridgwater 13 Sep 2017

Linux has always done well in the server room. As we know, Linux is particularly good at uptime, running multiple processes at once and configuration changes can be executed while systems are live ...

• Cast survey: whatever happened to software accountability?

  Adrian Bridgwater 06 Sep 2017

Software analysis and measurement company Cast has conducted its annual developer survey with a twist (this year) which attempts to uncover whether developers are being held accountable for the ...

• Oracle opens Java EE, any takers?

  Adrian Bridgwater 20 Aug 2017

Oracle bought Sun, for various reasons. Popular commentary on the subject puts the purchase down to Oracle's desire to have a more credible level of what might be called 'operational software' ...

• Toad in the (open source data toolset) hole

  Adrian Bridgwater 18 Aug 2017

Systems management and security software company Quest Software has announced its Toad Edge product. This is a commercial database toolset for software application development teams and database ...

• Oh, it's Android O... me want cookie

  Adrian Bridgwater 16 Aug 2017

Android is set for an update and the next version is codenamed "O". The Google-developed mobile operating system has been in open beta for some time now, reaching alpha stage developer preview ...

• What Laravel 5.5 means for developers (part #2)

  Adrian Bridgwater 14 Aug 2017

This is contributed post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Max Gilbert in his capacity as software developer at Preston UK based web design agency Blue Wren - a firm that builds ...

• Liferay puts new sting in open source web developer tools

  Adrian Bridgwater 10 Aug 2017

If there's one technical expression likely to induce nausea in most industry watchers it is (arguably) digital (or user) experience. Sometime even written as User eXperience (UX), this term is ...

• What Laravel 5.5 means for developers (part #1)

  Adrian Bridgwater 08 Aug 2017

This is contributed post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Max Gilbert in his capacity as software developer at Preston UK based web design agency Blue Wren - a firm that builds ...

• Packet gives cloud native community new lab, woof!

  Adrian Bridgwater 08 Aug 2017

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has established a mission which centres around what it calls 'sustaining and integrating' open source technologies to orchestrate containers as part of ...

• ActiveRuby polishes up gems, precompiled jewels sparkle

  Adrian Bridgwater 27 Jul 2017

Open source languages company ActiveState has hit beta on its commercially supported Ruby distribution. Ruby is an open source interpreted object-oriented programming language designed to be ...