By Matt Asay Marten Mickos may no longer run MySQL, but his ghost still haunts the database market. Years ago, Mickos declared, “The relational database market is a $9 billion a year …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: April 2015
Montreal off the menu as Uber launches food delivery service
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•Montreal is unlikely to be on the menu for Uber’s new food delivery service any time soon, with the Canadian city seizing 40 cars in a crackdown against the company’s …read more Source:: Legal
Mitchell Hashimoto follows up Vagrant with Vault key encryption
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•By Serdar Yegulalp After creating the Vagrant devops tool, Mitchell Hashimoto has been anything but complacent. He’s launched several projects, including the Atlas end-to-end management system for controlling the open source projects …read more Source:: OpenSource
Nginx anchors API management for microservices
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Building an API often means adding user authentication, rate limiting, logging, caching, or other such functions. In a world of microservices, that can mean a lot of unneeded reinvention. That’s the …read more Source:: OpenSource
ACCC forces EA to offer refunds for Origin digital downloads
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•The Australian competition watchdog has welcomed an enforced undertaking from gaming giant EA to provide refunds to customers downloading games on the Origin platform. …read more Source:: Legal
Google launches Patent Purchase Promotion program
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•Still described as an “experiment” at this point in time, the hub is a bit of a spin on the countless cloud-based app stores popping up. …read more Source:: Legal
OpenOffice development is looking grim as developers flock to LibreOffice
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•By Jared Newman OpenOffice used to be the best free alternative to Microsoft’s Office, but now it seems to be falling on hard times. Development on the open-source productivity suite is down …read more Source:: OpenSource
Red Hat broadens programming language support
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•By Joab Jackson Potentially making work easier for system administrators, Red Hat has updated its development packages to support running multiple versions of the same programming language on its flagship enterprise operating system, …read more Source:: OpenSource
Enterprises still miss the real point of open source
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•By Matt Asay To its credit, enterprise IT management finally acknowledges open source. To its shame, it fails to foster a culture of contribution. This is particularly counterproductive, given that most developers already spend …read more Source:: OpenSource
No Linux, no Docker, no cloud OS? Think again
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•By Serdar Yegulalp CoreOS and Joyent’s SmartOS/Triton have worked to redefine, in radically different ways, what an OS needs to be to run applications at scale in the cloud. Now another candidate is set …read more Source:: OpenSource