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• Open source licence series - Altus: open source is big business, get used to it

  Adrian Bridgwater 27 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 ...

• Open source licence series - Instaclustr: Is open core a rotten deal?

  Adrian Bridgwater 24 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 ...

• Open source licence series - WhiteSource: permissive is winning, but is there a hurt factor?

  Adrian Bridgwater 23 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 ...

• Open source licence series - Percona: is the battle won, or is this a different war?

  Adrian Bridgwater 22 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 ...

• Open source licence series - Perforce: it was NEVER about the money

  Adrian Bridgwater 20 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 ...

• Open source licence series - R3: The world needs audit licenses

  Adrian Bridgwater 19 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 ...

• MariaDB goes bigly on cloud-native smart apps

  Adrian Bridgwater 17 Jan 2020

MariaDB Corporation is upping its cloud-native playbook. At the same time, MariaDB is aiming to up its approach to so-called ‘smart’ applications., so before we define the parameters at play here, ...

• Dynatrace ‘traces’ route to standardised (OpenTelemetry) observability with Google & Microsoft 

  Adrian Bridgwater 15 Jan 2020

Dynatrace has connected, collaborated, corroborated and cooperated on a new software huddle with Google and Microsoft. The organisation that calls itself a ‘software intelligence company’ is ...

• The open source licence debate: what we need to know

  Adrian Bridgwater 14 Jan 2020

As we have already noted on Computer Weekly Open Source Insider, open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key ...

• The open source licence debate: comprehension consternations & stipulation frustrations

  Adrian Bridgwater 09 Jan 2020

As we have noted here, 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 ...

• The open source licence debate: dead project walking & incentive models

  Adrian Bridgwater 08 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. If you don't accept the options offered ...

• commercetools: how GraphQL works for front-end developers

  Adrian Bridgwater 07 Jan 2020

GraphQL (query language) was the brainchild of Facebook and was open sourced in 2015.  Many of the apps and websites we use are built on GraphQL, including Twitter, AWS and GitHub. Kelly Goetsch, ...

• New moon rising: DataStax Luna is subs-based support for Cassandra

  Adrian Bridgwater 19 Dec 2019

DataStax has taken the Christmas wrapping paper off of DataStax Luna, a subscription-based support offering for open source Cassandra.   The company says it is offering this service due to the ...

• Fairwinds navigates straighter open course towards SaaS-y Kubernetes 

  Adrian Bridgwater 10 Dec 2019

Cloud-native infrastructure company Fairwinds recently launched a SaaS product for DevOps teams so that they can manage multiple Kubernetes clusters. The almost-eponymously named called Fairwinds ...

• Calmer waters promised in the data lake through Linux Foundation Delta Lake Project 

  Adrian Bridgwater 10 Dec 2019

The Linux Foundation’s promotion and hosting of Delta Lake is an interesting development. Delta Lake (wait for it… the clue is in the name) is a project focusing on improving the reliability and ...