Russia Weighs Replacing IBM, Microsoft With Open-Source Software
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 6, 2016
Duma is drafting a bill to restrict government agencies from buying licensed software, giving preference to open-source software. Read More.
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Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 6, 2016
Duma is drafting a bill to restrict government agencies from buying licensed software, giving preference to open-source software. Read More.
TechSpot
APRIL 26, 2024
Ten years after releasing the source code of MS-DOS 1.25 Microsoft is making yet another contribution to the world of open-source software preservation. Working in partnership with IBM and "in the spirit of open innovation," the company has released the source code of MS-DOS 4.00 under an MIT license.
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CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 11, 2024
To solve the problem, the company turned to gen AI and decided to use both commercial and open source models. So we augment with open source, he says. Right now, the company is using the French-built Mistral open source model. Open source models also offer companies more flexibility in when to upgrade.
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 31, 2024
While lawyers argue in the WP Engine versus Automattic litigation whether the hyperbole should be believed, the continuing battle of words, almost all nasty ones, is starting to raise doubts how much an enterprise should rely on open source. And even if open source can be avoided at all in late 2024.
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.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 15, 2013
Microsoft » Popular. Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers. Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers. The interior of a container packed with servers at a Microsoft data center in Chicago. Image: Microsoft Corp). Microsoft: 300,000 Servers in Container Farm. By: Rich Miller July 15th, 2013.
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
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.
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.
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
“Is that getting all borrowed from one source; are there multiple sources? While human-written code can also infringe on copyright or violate open-source licenses, the risk with AI-generated code is related to the data the AI is trained on, says Ilia Badeev, head of data science at Trevolution Group, a travel technology company.
Venture Beast
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.
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."
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
This year’s Microsoft Ignite developer conference might as well be called AIgnite, with over half of the almost 600 sessions featuring artificial intelligence in some shape or form. Here’s some of the top AI news CIOs will want to take away from Microsoft Ignite 2023. The new Copilot will be generally available from Dec.
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.
Venture Beast
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.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 24, 2013
Should the OpenStack community focus on creating an open source alternative to Amazon and Google? Dubbed in the media as “the cloud wars,” there are a handful of open source frameworks competing (or not, depending on who you ask). Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center. Cloud Wars. ARCHIVED ARTICLES.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 25, 2013
Cloudera announced Sentry – a new Apache licensed open source project that delivers the industry’s first fine-grained authorization framework for Hadoop. Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. Select Month. Contact Us. Submit News. Submit Guest Column. Hot Topics Downtime. HPC / Supercomputing.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vox
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Last fall, a group of anonymous copyright owners sued Open AI and Microsoft , which owns the GitHub software platform, for allegedly infringing on the rights of developers who’ve contributed software to GitHub. Microsoft and OpenAI collaborated to build GitHub Copilot , which says it can use AI to write code.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Google and Microsoft are also rolling out gen AI functionality in their productivity platforms, as is Salesforce, and most other enterprise vendors. The company still has that in place, with 130-plus licenses available to its internal users, who use the standard chat interface, and there are no API costs or integrations required.
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