Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. For customers looking elsewhere, theres no shortage of alternatives. McDowell agrees.

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Virtualization Strategy Enterprise Enterprise 430

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source.

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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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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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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Here is their press release : NSA Releases First in Series of Software Products to Open Source Community. The software is “open source,” which means its code is available to the public – in this case, through the Apache Software Foundation. New technology automates high-volume data flows.

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Network World

MARCH 10, 2025

Entrepreneur Moores is the owner ofSwitzerland-based LzLabs and well known for founding BMC Software in 1980. 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.

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CTOvision

MAY 7, 2014

They are: geoevents: The GeoEvents project is a dynamic and customizable open source web presence that provides a common operational picture to consolidate activities, manage content, and provides a single point of discovery. We would appreciate acknowledgement if the software is used. ” Pull requests. In the News.

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Information Week

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

When implementing open source software, look beyond the license terms to understand who is driving change on the software.

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SPF13

JULY 21, 2010

My take on open source licenses. Open Source licensing can be a confusing and daunting task. Most developers simply adopt licenses of other popular projects. I wanted to shed some light on the most popular licenses and provide some guidance on which one should be used and when. Open source.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Have you ever met an Oracle customer who happily pays the company’s fees for software support? There’s not much incentive for large vendors to provide prolonged support for software they’d just as soon discard into the end-of-life bin. Neither have we. Rimini Street is different. When was your last database health check?

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 28, 2014

CTOs should consider having their development teams take advantage of free, entry-level versions of software – known as freemium software – to test out the functions of commercial products. Remember back when software was simple? The whole mood in enterprise software development is about being iterative, collaborative and agile.

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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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CTOvision

JANUARY 13, 2015

Available to the public through NGA’s GitHub account, the software can be useful in many situations,” said Chris Rasmussen, NGA’s public software development lead. Releasing MrGeo helps further the agency’s goal of increasing and streamlining co-creation efforts in software and unclassified data, said Rasmussen.

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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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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Some context from that site: Welcome to the DARPA Open Catalog, which contains a curated list of DARPA-sponsored software and peer-reviewed publications. The DARPA Open Catalog organizes publically releasable material from DARPA programs, beginning with the XDATA program in the Information Innovation Office (I2O).

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

VergeIO is looking to shake up the virtual infrastructure market with its approach to virtualization and software-defined networking. 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.

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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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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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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Gone are the days when companies used a single database and had a straightforward cost structure, including hardware and software costs and number of users. Expansion of license types. These different databases have varying licensing mechanisms, including traditional, cloud, full open source, and commercial open source.

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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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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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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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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. Another is to identify savings opportunities from using open-source components instead of commercial software.

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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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TechSpot

MARCH 20, 2023

John Deere has been recently called out for its inability to properly handle open-source software according to the GPL license. Read Entire Article

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 13, 2022

For years, developers of free, open-source software have been telling anyone who will listen that their projects needs better financial assistance and more oversight. Now, after a number of disastrous incidents involving open-source code, the federal government and Silicon Valley may finally be listening.

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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. The Software Era: ? Open Source is taking over the world. Transcript.

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Tech Republic

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Open source is as much a philosophy as it is a development methodology. Open source code is meant to be shared, improved, and used in whatever way the user wants, marking a departure from traditional software licensing agreements. Using open source products also.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

They can code, write poetry, draw in any art style, create PowerPoint slides and website mockups, write marketing copy and emails, and find new vulnerabilities in software and plot holes in unpublished novels. In a recent report, he estimated that gen AI software revenues will grow from $3.7 Gen AI took a few months.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2023

Natural language processing software Whether you’re building a chatbot, voice assistant, predictive text application, or other application with NLP at its core, you’ll need tools to help you do it. SpaCy , an open-source library for advanced natural language processing explicitly designed for production use rather than research.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 3, 2024

After years of nasty back and forth accusations between WordPress hosting provider WP Engine (WPE) and WordPress.org, the open source project that provides the software, on Wednesday WPE sued WordPress.org in federal court, accusing WordPress.org, which is affiliated with a for-profit company called Automattic, of trying to extort money from it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

While the OAU program gives customers access to security patches and application updates which may be delivered through periodic upgrades at a cost of typically 22% of the annual license fees, applying changes to software introduces risk of compatibility issues with existing applications and customized software.

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