Microsoft .NET adoption gets boost from open source
Microsoft credits open source and cross-platform support for the increased adoption of its software development platform. At one time, commercial software giant Microsoft was known as a company that was unfriendly to...
Open-source: Get SLAs to protect network apps with open-source components
Open-source code in commercial network software can mean that when flaws are found by open-source project teams, fixes don’t make it to the commercial products. The continuous influx of open-source...
Server-side licensing leads to hike in public cloud prices
Changes made over the last year or so to protect open source revenue streams are starting to impact public cloud managed service costs. Server-side types of licensing are starting to...
Cyber security is next frontier for open source
Open security will facilitate the interoperability and capabilities of cyber security tools while alleviating vendor lock-in for enterprises, says IBM. Cyber security is the next frontier for the open source development...
Cisco open-source code boosts performance of Kubernetes apps over SD-WAN
Cisco’s Cloud-Native SD-WAN project marries SD-WANs to Kubernetes applications to cut down on the manual work needed to optimize latency and packet loss. Cisco has introduced an open-source project that...
Google commits to protecting open source projects
Initiative to trademark projects aims to stop public cloud providers from offering their own managed service version of open source code. The decision to protect open source project trademarks comes...
The future of open source licences is changing
The Open Source Insider blog on Computer Weekly recently asked industry experts for their views on the future of open source licensing. One of the pillars of software development is:...
With friends like AWS, who needs an open source business?
AWS executive’s remarks over the company’s exploitation of open source have put a question mark over the viability of open source businesses. In December, a New York Times article suggested that Amazon...
AWS hits back at open source theft allegations
New York Times accuses the public cloud provider of taking open source products and integrating them into its own managed services. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has accused the New York Times of...
Google slams public cloud rivals over ‘mistreatment’ of open source community
Google Cloud has committed to forging closer ties with the open source community, while hitting out at its competitors for not doing enough to support it. Google has taken aim...