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

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Microsoft Corp. has expanded its Phi line of open-source language models with the introduction of two new algorithms designed for multimodal processing and hardware efficiency: Phi-4-mini and Phi-4-multimodal. Featured image credit: Microsoft billion parameters, enabling it to run efficiently on mobile devices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

These AI service providers include CoreWeave, Equinix, Digital Realty, and Paperspace, as well as GPU leader Nvidia and, to an extent, cloud hyperscalers Microsoft, Google, and AWS. Open source is one way CIOs can definitely keep the costs low,” he says, pointing out that open-source models are also transparent and can be customized.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2023

Many, if not most, enterprises deploying generative AI are starting with OpenAI, typically via a private cloud on Microsoft Azure. And many organizations already have a relationship with Microsoft, and are comfortable with the security, manageability, and enterprise support they get from the company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2022

Data science teams make use of a wide range of tools, including SQL, Python, R, Java, and a cornucopia of open source projects such as Hive, oozie, and TensorFlow. TensorFlow: Developed by Google and licensed under Apache License 2.0, Knime: Knime is an open source data analytics, reporting, and integration platform.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Microsoft, Google, Salesforce—all the major players are all in on AI, so it only makes sense to leverage that. Open-source AI Open source has long been a driver of innovation in the AI space. Many data science tools and base models are open source, or are based heavily on open-source projects.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2023

They integrate with Slack, Microsoft Messenger, and other chat programs where they read the language you use, then turn on when you type in a trigger phrase. Mallet , an open-source, Java-based package for statistical NLP, document classification, clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, and other ML applications to text.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 26, 2024

Runa Capital’s ROSS Index highlights the growing market for AI and open-source technologies, tracking the rapid expansion of this sector. These efforts showcase the diverse, evolving nature of AI and open-source ventures. It reflects an increasingly vibrant ecosystem fueled by technological advancements.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Hortonworks was already available on Microsoft''s Azure cloud, and Amazon''s AWS. Microsoft Shows More Love For Linux, HDInsight Now Supports Ubuntu On Azure (microsoft-news.com). An Open Microsoft: Azure HDInsight Available for Linux (windowsitpro.com). Read more here on DataCenterKnowledge.com.

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Venture Beat

MARCH 12, 2021

Open source or proprietary? License fees? How much does a database cost? It depends. Support contracts? Here are some of the factors. Read More.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

Several gen AI vendors, including OpenAI, Microsoft, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and others, have had suits filed against them. One option, however, is to use open source software. There are a number of models, of various licenses, currently available to the public. Then there are the lawsuits.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Public cloud providers such as AWS, Google, and Microsoft Azure publish shared responsibility models that push security of the data, platform, applications, operating system, network and firewall configuration, and server-side encryption, to the customer. Open source applications running in the cloud need to be copyrighted.

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TechSpot

APRIL 5, 2024

"In addition to improved IT security, cost-effectiveness, and data protection, the use of open-source software also enables seamless collaboration between different systems," officials said. Alongside open-source software development, the goal is to release future development results of the country under free licenses."

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

For example, in April, the CEOs of leading tech companies — including Microsoft, OpenAI, Alphabet and Amazon Web Services — joined an AI safety and security board with the mission of advising the federal government on how to protect critical infrastructure. . These are OK, please use those,'” he said.

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Venture Beat

JUNE 23, 2021

The Linux Foundation has announced a new permissive license designed to help foster collaboration around open data for AI projects. Read More.

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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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CTOvision

OCTOBER 18, 2013

H2O is the open source math & machine learning platform for speed and scale. Amazon and Microsoft. Leveraging both structured and unstructured data built on the power of Apache Lucene/Solr open source search, LucidWorks delivers unmatched stability, scalability, and time-to-delivery for search applications.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Microsoft Build developer conference in Seattle in May 2019. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) When I met Satya Nadella in 1992, we were both engineers at Microsoft, and I never would have guessed we’d go on to be life-long friends or that he’d end up running the company for over a decade.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

MARCH 2, 2009

This week is the Microsoft Public Sector CIO summit in that village named Redmond “across the pond” from Seattle. In this environment, it sure is tempting to chuck Microsoft’s Office and web products and their complicated Enterprise and Select Agreements in favor of open source equivalents. Why is that?

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GeekWire

MAY 11, 2023

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy highlighted generative AI in his recent shareholder letter , and Microsoft continues to push out a stream of AI product announcements. Batalov touted Amazon’s Code Whisperer , which offers a tool that vets AI-generated code and provides links to sources, while also checking for licensing requirements.

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Tech Republic

APRIL 30, 2024

Learn how to access Meta’s new AI model Llama 3, which sets itself apart by being open to use under a license agreement.

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Fountainhead

APRIL 23, 2012

The open-sourced OpenStack.org effort. The open-sourced CloudStack.org effort, newly affiliated with the Apache Software Foundation. Already, Amazon has licensed its API to Eucalyptus (see James Statens blog "Has Amazon Solved Its Private Cloud Dilemma?" Are Allegiances Forming? 3 comments: xbrlspy.

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Vox

JULY 28, 2023

But more importantly, its open source nature adds new urgency to an important ethical debate over who should control AI — and whether it can be made safe. Zuckerberg also made the case for why it’s better for leading AI models to be “open source,” which means making the technology’s underlying code largely available for anyone to use.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

Windows getting shown up by Linux was not allowed, so Microsoft did some Microsoft maneuvering, and by January 2008 the Eee PC was running Windows XP instead. Chromebooks exist, and both Apple and Microsoft worry about them in familiar ways. We hadn’t invented the phrase “cloud services” yet.). Did any of this even happen ?

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The Verge

JANUARY 5, 2021

Today we are announcing a breakthrough: we have secured a license from the US government to offer GitHub to developers in Iran. The changes are due to an exemption granted by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the sanction enforcement arm of the US Treasury Department.

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Prior to this year VMware has consistently included new features of the product at vary levels of vSphere licensing. When they introduced the concept of distributed virtual switches it was licensed via a higher level of licensing for vSphere. General Microsoft NSX OpenStack VMWare' VMware hasn’t had a death ear.

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Fountainhead

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

To recap how I’ve been tracking some of the evolution: In Part I (back in 2013) we observed AWS experimenting with expansion by reaching down into the enterprise by licensing its APIs (remember Eucalyptus?) Microsoft in essence took the Azure API set, and embedded it into their on-premises server software. In summary.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

The company has also developed its own internal, agentic AI tools, and uses different agentic frameworks for different projects, including Microsoft AutoGen, and is exploring crewAI and LlamaIndex. For example, AI agents use open source intelligence to hunt for movie leaks and piracy across social media and the dark web.

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Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

Open Systems: Open Systems’ SASE+ includes the full stack as a combination of in-house, partners, and open-source components. Open Systems focuses on multinational small and medium-sized enterprises with 1,000 to 10,000 employees. Barracuda’s SASE platform boasts a tight integration with Microsoft Azure.

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Kitaboo

JANUARY 8, 2020

We also had the Readium Chrome Application and support for Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Microsoft Edge. Anyone can also use the Readium source code without a commercial license. It’s totally free and permissively licensed. You will no longer need to pay any license fees like you had to do earlier. The Future.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2022

GeekWire: How do you see the Hutch working with larger players like Amazon and Microsoft, vs. smaller startups? Leek: There’s everything from licensing technologies to identifying ways to support trainees who see themselves growing into a more startup-like community rather than going into academics.

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Phil Windley

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Instead of enshrining Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft as the Internet's permanent overlords and then striving to make them as benign as possible, we can fix the Internet by making Big Tech less central to its future. Beyond health pass applications, things like mobile drivers licenses need to be interoperable to be useful.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community. Microsoft recently introduced some new remote development extensions for Visual Studio Code. Operating Systems/Applications.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 4, 2023

Other: “Includes sales related to various other offerings, such as certain licensing and distribution of video content, health care services, and shipping services, and our co-branded credit card agreements.” ” [Rose 22% to $10.7 ” [This segment, not included in the chart above, rose 26% to $1.3

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GeekWire

JULY 21, 2023

For artists and creators, and those who purchase or license their work, it can be a confusing time to consider how AI will impact who made what and who owns it. ’ Others will actually say, ‘I own the outputs and you have a license. AI’s Evolving Legal, Regulatory & Ethical Landscape.” Maybe you do.

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