TechSpot

AUGUST 3, 2023

Meta recently launched AudioCraft, its framework to generate "high-quality," realistic audio and music, with an open-source license. While some progress has already been made in this area, the company acknowledges. Read Entire Article

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2024

The landscape of data center infrastructure is shifting dramatically, influenced by recent licensing changes from Broadcom that are driving up costs and prompting enterprises to reevaluate their virtualization strategies. As a result, VMware customers can no longer purchase perpetual licenses or just the ESXi hypervisor on its own.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Open source software (OSS) started as a reaction to companies like Microsoft and Oracle making “unfair” profits on software, so developers created Linux and MySQL and made them available to anyone for free. AWS is profiting from open source, and Elastic is very mad. Now OSS has gone full circle.

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 21, 2024

IBM is sticking to real open source. Unlike other tech giants that toy with the idea of “open,” IBM is making Granite available under the Apache 2.0 license, ensuring businesses can truly innovate without getting stuck in legal quagmires. The real differentiator? The Granite Guardian 3.0

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The same thing could happen with software code, even though companies don’t typically share their source code, he says. The same goes for open-source stuff. A lot of open-source programs are meant for non-commercial use only. Does the output infringe something that someone else has done?”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

From the start, Meta has made the Llama models available to other enterprises under a license it describes as “open source,” but the creation of the new business group makes clear that Meta’s interest is commercial, not philanthropic. Meta also has a veto on competitors using Llama for anything too big: The Llama 3.2

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CTOvision

JULY 21, 2015

The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.

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GeekWire

JUNE 11, 2024

LinkedIn Photos) Seattle startup Cyrus Biotechnology is spinning out a business that will expand access to the company’s software technology, with the potential of supporting innovation in drug development, agriculture, synthetic biology and manufacturing. Tech companies are really good at what they do.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 3, 2024

A VMware licensing cost increase of 150%. For many VMware customers, the licensing model and price changes were abrupt. Facing backlash from existing customers, Broadcom has attempted to explain the new product and licensing model with a hope that current customers can manage the transition. An increase of 300%.

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Dataconomy

MAY 10, 2023

Open source business intelligence software is a game-changer in the world of data analysis and decision-making. With open source BI software, businesses no longer need to rely on expensive proprietary software solutions that can be inflexible and difficult to integrate with existing systems.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2024

Earthquakes in infrastructure automation The story begins in August 2023 when HashiCorp, the custodians of Terraform, the most widely-used IaC framework, announced that they were moving its license from Mozilla Public License (MPL) to Business Source License (BSL). The community struck back. There are some solid reasons.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Google is ending development on the virtual reality painting app Tilt Brush — one of the most well-known VR applications — and making it open source. Tilt Brush’s code can be accessed on GitHub now , but Google says some features had to be removed from the open-source release because of licensing restrictions.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The company has gobbled up at least four other startups this year, including one that is under investigation by the Justice Department. AI startups are raising a large chunk of total funding, though some industry insiders expect more M&A activity as companies run out of money and larger corporations look to buy talent and tech.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 6, 2022

Grafana Labs is replacing Apache 2-licensed Cortex with Mimir, which is broader in scope and licensed under the more restrictive AGPLv3. Read More.

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SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. Open Source Companies • Redhat $13B • Cloudera $3B • MongoDB $1.6B • Docker $.5B

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Network World

JUNE 18, 2024

Today’s announcement is strongly positioned to substantiate the company as a supplier to enterprise of open source AI technology, without making specific assumptions of where the enterprise market really stands regarding on-prem AI. If the vendor tanks, you have the source code licenses in an amenably open-sourced forum.”

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Network World

MAY 23, 2024

Why would a smart vendor buy a company whose product(s) are open source? The only possible answer is that the buyers of the product would rather get it in commercial form than in open form. Part of the reason is that it’s hard for enterprises to hire and retain specialists on all the open-source tools they might want.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

NASA will soon perform a significant upgrade to the systems employed in its spaceflight computers, adopting the RISC-V architecture developed and provided under open-source licenses. NASA selected SiFive to provide the CPU cores, a fitting choice as the company headquartered in San Mateo, California was founded 7 years ago to.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 13, 2016

Open source software is critical to the modern enterprise software landscape. Alluxio is open source under the Apache license, and we are committed to maintaining this model. Alluxio is one of the fastest growing open source projects in the Big Data ecosystem. Alluxio, Inc.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 7, 2024

WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg offered staff at his company, Automattic, $30,000 or six months’ salary to leave if they didn’t like the way he was handling a dispute with rival WordPress service provider WP Engine. On Thursday, Oct.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 3, 2024

However, others suggest that the deal could be a mistake for Big Blue, a company known for pushing things forward in emerging areas of technology. One of the criticisms of IBM’s purchase of HashiCorp is the latter’s decision to abandon open-source licensing. IBM is well-known for its affinity to open source.

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Vox

AUGUST 5, 2024

Anthropic was supposed to be the good AI company. In fact, all of Anthropic’s founders once worked at OpenAI but quit in part because of differences over safety culture there , and moved to spin up their own company that would build AI more responsibly. The ethical one. The safe one. Now, though, the tensions are turbocharged.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2023

Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT set adoption records last winter, companies of all sizes have been trying to figure out how to put some of that sweet generative AI magic to use. The Azure deployment gives companies a private instance of the chatbot, meaning they don’t have to worry about corporate data leaking out into the AI’s training data set.

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Vox

JULY 28, 2023

At a time when other leading AI companies like Google and OpenAI are closely guarding their secret sauce, Meta decided to give away , for free, the code that powers its innovative new AI large language model , Llama 2. But open-sourcing AI comes with major risks. Last week, Meta made a game-changing move in the world of AI.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 25, 2016

On January 22, Hortonworks announced that it was one of the select companies that Forrester Research, Inc. Hortonworks is a rock when it comes to its promise to offer a 100% open source distribution. All of the technology built into HDP is an Apache open source project. Katie Kennedy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

But there are no ways around the significant premium pricing being placed on generative AI workloads because the core infrastructure necessary to train and tune generative AI models are “largely supplied by one company: Nvidia ,” IDC notes. IBM, Oracle, Dell, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise also offer GPU-as-a-service.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Service providers (such as Accenture) are not known for building products that you license and pay for. Llama is an open source offering from Meta. OpenAI may get more proprietary if it ends up morphing fully into a for-profit company , but Llama’s commitment to open source may make it more likely to stay flexible.

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Vox

JULY 19, 2024

The bill doesn’t require a license. AI companies] do not have to get permission from an agency to release the [model]. But the worry is that the concerns might just make companies way too conservative. We interacted with people in the open source community and we made amendments in direct response to the open source community.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But there’s also the downside: the possibility gen AI will take companies down. The phrase “existential risk” is now everywhere—not in the sense the AI would destroy humanity, but that it would make business functions, or even entire companies, obsolete. At Black Hat, there were at least a hundred companies I saw,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

It can also expose companies to future legislation. These complaints, filed by a variety of different copyright holders, allege the companies of training their AIs on copyrighted data—images, code, and text. The company also prohibits staff from using ChatGPT to write letters to clients. Not without warning signs, however.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Big Data Companies Cloud Computing Companies CTO Ambari Apache Apache Ambari Apache Hadoop Apache License bdutil Big Data cloud GitHub Google Google Cloud Google Compute Engine Google Storage Hadoop Hortonworks MapR Open Source' MapR Enables the Real-Time, Data-Centric Enterprise (insidebigdata.com).

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The company’s mission is clear: to “make AI useful” for enterprises by harnessing publicly available data and contributions from customers. With the launch of Mistral 7B, the company is taking its first significant step towards fulfilling this mission. license By using software licensed under the Apache 2.0

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2022

The company confirms it was hacked. In a statement to PCMag , Bloomberg , and VideoCardz , the company says it became aware of the breach on February 23rd, and that it does “not anticipate any disruption to [its] business or our ability to serve our customers as a result of the incident.”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2023

This includes running a benchmarking spend analysis on all categories relative to industry peers, as well as leading technology companies. Review software licenses and subscriptions Many organizations are over-licensed and oversubscribed on software, pushing costs higher than they need to be.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2024

During the new AI revolution of the past year and a half, many companies have experimented with and developed solutions with large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 via Azure OpenAI, while weighing the merits of digital assistants like Microsoft Copilot.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 26, 2021

40% decrease in licensing costs. High operating costs, due to licensing fees, and infrastructure and operations requirements affected HT’s competitiveness. HT wanted to move its order management to being open source, cloud-native and microservices-based, so that it could be scaled easily. 40% better productivity.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

While hackers target companies of all sizes, a tech giant like SAP may have a bigger bull’s eye on its back because of the sensitive data it manages and the critical role its ERP applications play in global businesses. SAP’s award-winning FioriDAST project mimics user and attacker behavior to safeguard its web applications.

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