Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Open source has taken the enterprise by storm. Major software companies employ teams of full-time workers to write and contribute code to open source projects. What was once seen as risky code, developed in suburban basements, has taken on new life. Even end user companies such as Netflix, Lyft, Capital One, etc.,

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 12, 2024

Open-source licenses give you rights to copy. In some cases, they define patent rights and responsibilities. However, when they mention trademarks at all, most of them exclude rights rather than include them.

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Network World

MARCH 10, 2025

The Court found that these parties had conspired to breach Winsopias license agreement in a deliberate, systematic and intentionally hidden effort to unlawfully reverse engineer critical IBM mainframe technology. IBM licensed its mainframe software to Winsopia beginning in 2013, according to the court documents.

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Tech Republic Cloud

APRIL 13, 2021

After Elastic decided to relicense Elasticsearch under the non-open source Server Side Public License, Amazon Web Services open sourced the old code into its own fork, OpenSearch.

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Open Source Web Services Licensing 217

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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Network World

MARCH 11, 2025

Using open-source agents and OpenTelemetry-based software development kits (SDK) to collect data from browsers and mobile applications, Frontend Observability can monitor application performance and collect data that will help IT teams correlate frontend performance problems with backend services, according to Observe.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

That’s why Rimini Street strategic services groups assist clients at any stage of their infrastructure modernization, including: • License advisory services to help maximize deployment of your Oracle Database licenses to achieve the best return on investment • Help with developing a business-driven, rather than vendor-dictated roadmap–even migrating (..)

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Oracle Licensing Database Administration Open Source 312

CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Looking to meet enterprise needs in the machine learning space, Oracle is making its Tribuo Java machine learning library available free under an open-source license. With Tribuo, Oracle aims to […].

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Venture Beat

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Elastic cofounder and CEO Shay Banon discusses the Elasticsearch open source license switch, and what being "free and open" really means. Read More.

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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. As for the software, Iams said that “open source is not always going to be cheaper than closed source.

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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

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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Devops Open Source Licensing IBM 282

Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

Whats inside VergeIO and where its deployed While the ESX hypervisor is at the core of the VMware virtualization platform, VergeIO is based on the open-source KVM hypervisor. VergeIO is not, however, using an off-the-shelf version of KVM. The more of the stack you own, the better our story becomes.

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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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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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Vmware Licensing Cloud Virtualization 214

CTOvision

APRIL 17, 2021

AWS has unveiled the OpenSearch project – a community-driven open-source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana – in response to Elastic changing its licensing terms for these at the start of the year over what it regarded as AWS exploiting its open-source code. plus […].

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Open Source Licensing Web Services 253

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Expansion of license types. These different databases have varying licensing mechanisms, including traditional, cloud, full open source, and commercial open source. Complex licensing structures. Complex licensing structures. Many database vendors tout a flexible licensing structure.

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Oracle Open Source Licensing Enterprise 130

Network World

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

First, let me start by saying none of this is about open source or free software. Licensing of software, while extremely important, is not the focus here. What I’d like to talk about right now are some pretty high-level things—laying out the ground rules, if you will, for what I’m trying to accomplish.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 28, 2025

Google has announced that PebbleOS is now available for download under an open-source license, signaling its support for volunteers who continue to maintain Pebble devices. In a surprising twist, Pebble Technology's original founder has also confirmed his interest in re-entering the "Pebble game" sooner rather than later.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The startup's focus is providing language model solutions released through open-source licenses, so that AI can become "useful" to anyone with no need to spend huge amounts of money or pay to access. Mistral is a new AI company co-founded by former Google and Meta alumni valued at $260 million. Read Entire Article

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Venture Beat

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The nonprofit consortium MLCommons has released a massive, license-free dataset for speech recognition system development and testing. Read More.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

But in many cases, the prospect of migrating to modern cloud native, open source languages 1 seems even worse. It further avoids IP infringement by training AI models that are trained on coding data with permissive licenses. With their outdated technology and high costs, legacy codebases hold enterprises back.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

MARCH 28, 2024

Essentially, all software is built using open source. By Synopsys' count, 96% of all codebases contain open-source software. Lately, though, there's been a very disturbing trend.

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Open Source Software Software Licensing 98

Tech Republic Data Center

AUGUST 31, 2021

Docker announced a new subscription plan for enterprises and free access to Docker Desktop for personal use, educational institutions, non-commercial open-source projects and small businesses.

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Licensing Open Source Small Business Education 177

TechSpot

JUNE 22, 2023

Intel One Mono is better than free, because it is provided with an open source license and was designed with a. Intel Corporation worked with the Frere-Jones Type design studio and marketing agency VMLY&R to create a new font, one that would be easier to read and free to use. Read Entire Article

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2023

Review software licenses and subscriptions Many organizations are over-licensed and oversubscribed on software, pushing costs higher than they need to be. One is to take steps to optimize subscription fees on expensive licenses by verifying the user base uses a software product or even separately licensed/subscribed features.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

For example, CIOs on a budget can reduce generative AI costs by using open-source models, such as OpenAI and Lambda, which can be accessed from various marketplaces and offer several advantages, says Bern Elliott, a distinguished analyst at Gartner.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In September, unhappy that WP Engine was not committing as much staff time to maintaining and improving the WordPress open source project as Automattic was, Mullenweg asked WP Engine to pay 8% of its revenue to Automattic as a license fee for the use of the WordPress trademark , or to commit staff time worth 8% of its revenue to working on WordPress (..)

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Engineering Open Source Licensing Report 277

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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Data Open Source Analysis Big Data 350

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 30, 2024

History suggests hyperscalers, which give away basic LLMs while licensing subscriptions for more powerful models with enterprise-grade features, will find more ways to pass along the immense costs of their buildouts to businesses. Can you blame them?

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

For the uninitiated, RISC-V is an open-source, royalty-free instruction set that anyone can implement without paying licensing fees. It's different from the x86 chips from Intel and AMD that power most laptops and desktops today, which are closed off behind a web of patents and cross-licensing deals. Read Entire Article

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Open Source Licensing Intel 78

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2023

Companies are looking at Google’s Bard, Anthropic’s Claude, Databricks’ Dolly, Amazon’s Titan, or IBM’s WatsonX, but also open source AI models like Llama 2 from Meta. Open source models are also getting easier to deploy. We feel that every hyperscaler will have open source generative AI models quickly.”

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Open Source Training Licensing Enterprise 246

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

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. Then, in July, Meta’s Llama 2 came out, and this time, it was licensed for commercial use.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2023

According to Technology Evaluation Centers, the most popular software includes: Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) , an open-source framework for building Python programs to work with human language data. SpaCy , an open-source library for advanced natural language processing explicitly designed for production use rather than research.

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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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Strategy Open Source Enterprise Enterprise 337

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

Vendors are selling cheap(er) appliances and lower license tiers to try and mop up the midmarket, and hyperconvergence technologies are beginning to work with hybrid and multi-cloud topologies. Vishal Ghariwala is the Chief Technology Officer for the APJ and Greater China regions for SUSE, a global leader in true open source solutions.

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