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Ali Baba (Arabic: علي بابا‎) is a poor woodcutter from the One Thousand And One Nights stories who discovers the secret of a thieves' den, entered with the phrase Open Sesame.  Ali Baba, the ...

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team speaks to Todd M Moore in his role as IBM VP ‘opentech’ & developer advocacy (and) CTO for developer ecosystems following the Open Source Summit ...

The Irish county town of Kilkenny is known for its medieval buildings and castle, its rich history of brewing, its distinctive black marble and as the home of White House architect James Hoban. In ...

Tibco is focused on open source and Agile this month. The integration and analytics specialist has upped the toolset in a group of its products with a key focus on Agile agility for cloud-native ...

DataStax offers a commercially supported ‘enterprise-robust’ database built on open source Apache Cassandra. As such, DataStax has told Computer Weekly Open Source Insider that it is actively ...

CCS Insight has predicted that by 2023, psychometric testing of software developers will become commonplace. The analyst firm believes that ethical psychometric testing will appear more regularly ...

In our voyages from software conference to software conference, we technology journalists often find stories that are developing and worth sharing. At Percona Live Europe last week, one such ...

Oracle has announced the availability of Java SE 13 (JDK 13) during the company’s Oracle Open World conference and exhibition in San Francisco. Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) is used by ...

Software is eating the world… and open source software is creating a new set of recipes, chewing it up and sticking it all into a completely different kind of sandwich with a whole new set of ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog written by Matt Boyle in his capacity as lead software engineer at Curve. Curve allows users to spend money from all their ...

Hermes is the Greek god of trade, heraldry and commerce… but also the Greek god of thieves and trickery. Facebook was presumably thinking of Hermes’ more virtuous qualities when it named its ...

Virtual Private Network (VPN) company NordVPN has introduced NordLynx technology built around the WireGuard protocol.  WireGuard is thought to be shaking up the VPN space as a new type of protocol ...

Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI, a San Francisco-based non-profit focused on open source Artificial Intelligence (AI). OpenAI has worked on open source AI advancements in areas ...

The recent spate of band reunions and Glastonbury illustrates the longevity of rock music. But the software industry seems to be stuck on finding the next big thing. Who would ever describe Windows ...

There are many magic rings in this world… and none of them should be used lightly. This is true. It is also true that organisations in every vertical are now having to work hard and find automation ...

Elastic (the company known for the Elasticsearch open source text search and analytics engine and the Elastic Stack data analysis and visualition toolset) will now acquire Endgame. Endgame is a ...

Data analytics company QuantumBlack is this month celebrating the launch of Kedro, its first open source project for data scientists. But what is Kedro? Kedro is a development workflow framework ...

Oracle may not always be viewed positively in open source circles, the company’s approach to Java and wider open platform still draws headlines a decade after it took up a position of stewardship ...

One of the most interesting things about the recent Open Infrastructure Summit – the new name for the OpenStack users and friends conferences – in Denver was how many people wanted to know if I ...

The hybrid cloud message rang loud and clear at Red Hat Summit 2019, with executives from the open source bigwig touting its wares to help enterprises run their workloads on-premise and on the ...

Open source software has evolved from providing low-cost alternatives to proprietary offerings to a platform for innovation. Most recent developments in cloud computing and software development, ...

For decades, the server operating system (OS) has been an indispensable part of any technology stack, harnessing the power of the underlying hardware infrastructure to run a wide array of business ...

When IBM announced that it was going to acquire open source juggernaut Red Hat for a whopping $34bn last October, several industry analysts weighed in on the merits of the mega deal and who would ...

JNBridgePro is a provider of interoperability tools to connect Java and .NET frameworks... the company’s mission has always been to enable developers to connect anything Java together with anything ...

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team spoke to Deepak Giridharagopal this week in his role as CTO at Puppet in an attempt to examine the true nature of open source openness. As defined in ...

Elastic is a search company -- it is the creator of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats and Logstash) -- that is focused on making real time data usable at scale for search, logging, ...

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team this month spoke to Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange on the ‘four commandments’ to follow when choosing a service provider. With a heavy emphasis on ...

As one would naturally expect at an annual convention, SUSE saved up a few partner, product, platform type announcements to break at its SUSECON show this week. Among the positive push ...

Open source Ruby and Erlang based configuration management tool company Chef has now committed to develop all of its software as open source software under the Apache 2.0 license. Open open open… ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team is digging into four days of open source goodness at SUSECON. SUSE these days describes itself as a provider of enterprise-grade ...