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• IT modernisation series – Coralogix: A thoroughly modern two-pronged approach to log analytics

  Adrian Bridgwater 03 Apr 2020

Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes.  In this series of ...

• Elementor opens free ‘experts’ network for pro web creators during COVID-19

  Adrian Bridgwater 31 Mar 2020

WordPress website builder company Elementor has launched a new people-focused offering (i.e. there’s a human element here, we’re not just talking about users) known as Elementor Experts. This ...

• What is InnerSource anyway?

  Adrian Bridgwater 30 Mar 2020

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Danese Cooper, VP of strategic initiatives at NearForm. NearForm is an open source development company specialising in ...

• Azul Systems brews up fresh blend for open source Java

  Adrian Bridgwater 23 Mar 2020

Java runtime solutions company Azul Systems has announced the general availability of its Zulu release of OpenJDK 14 builds. The builds are compliant with the Java SE 14 standard.   The company ...

• OpenUK schools competition uses MiniMU Glove, Red Hat also lends a hand

  Adrian Bridgwater 11 Mar 2020

OpenUK, the open technology advocate organisation for open data, open source hardware and open source software in Britain, today announced a new competition for children at what is known as age ...

• Planet straps up multi-boot for Cosmo Communicator

  Adrian Bridgwater 01 Mar 2020

Based in London, Planet Computers is the mobile handset manufacturer behind the  Gemini PDA and the new Cosmo Communicator. Computer Weekly reviewed the very delightful Gemini PDA device here and ...

• What to expect from SUSECON 2020

  Adrian Bridgwater 28 Feb 2020

UPDATE: Since this post was first written, SUSE has canceled the SUSECON 2020 due to the Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak -- we will aim to report on whatever virtual resrouces are made available in ...

• Couchbase chief evangelist: Unraveling the open source delusion

  Adrian Bridgwater 25 Feb 2020

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Andrew C. Oliver. Oliver is a former OSI board member, co-founder of Apache POI and present director of product marketing and ...

• Databricks CEO: Managing open source in the cloud is hard

  Adrian Bridgwater 21 Feb 2020

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Ali Ghodsi in his capacity as co-founder and CEO at data science, big data processing and machine learning company ...

• Linux Foundation & Harvard carry out open source ‘security census’

  Adrian Bridgwater 19 Feb 2020

The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) is a project designed to support best practices with a key eye on the security of critical open source software projects. The CII team ...

• MongoDB: developer distraction dents DevSecOps dreams

  Adrian Bridgwater 18 Feb 2020

Joe Drumgoole is deep in thought.  MongoDB’s director of developer relations has just opened a piece of internal research that suggests as few as 29% of Europe’s developers take full responsibility ...

• Open source licence series - Cockroach Labs: Scaling a sustainable open source business model

  Adrian Bridgwater 06 Feb 2020

Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...

• Open source licence series - OpenStack Foundation: Protecting open source freedoms

  Adrian Bridgwater 05 Feb 2020

Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...

• Open source licence series – Delphix: Rent vs buy, which fits your licencing cost model?

  Adrian Bridgwater 01 Feb 2020

Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...

• Open source licence series – Tidelift: Ethical source-available licenses challenge open source

  Adrian Bridgwater 31 Jan 2020

Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...