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Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation to develop interoperable open map data
The Linux Foundation has partnered with some of the world’s biggest technology companies to develop interoperable and open map data, in what is a clear move to counter Google’s dominance i
LF Europe’s Project Sylva wants to create an open source telco cloud stack
The Linux Foundation Europe (LF Europe) — the recently launched European offshoot of the open source Linux Foundation — today announced the launch of Project Sylva, which aims to create an
Linux Foundation announces the OpenWallet Foundation to develop interoperable digital wallets
The Linux Foundation has announced plans for a new collaborative initiative designed to support interoperability across digital wallets, built on an open source bedrock. The OpenWallet Foundation (OWF
The OpenInfra Foundation launches ‘directed funding’ as a new way to support open source projects
The OpenInfra Foundation, the open source foundation that used to be the OpenStack Foundation until it expanded its scope beyond its flagship project a few years ago, today announced an interes
Google Cloud launches new software supply chain and zero trust security services
Google Cloud is holding its annual Security Summit this week and unsurprisingly, the company used the event to launch a few new security features. This year, the announcements focus on software supply
Tech giants pledge $30M to boost open source software security
Tech giants including Amazon, Google and Microsoft have pledged millions of dollars to bolster the security of open source software. The pledge was made during a meeting in Washington, DC last week, w
Open source data integration platform Airbyte launches its cloud service
Airbyte, an open source data integration platform for building ELT data pipelines, today announced the general availability of its cloud service. The company is also detailing its new compensation pla
Knative becomes a CNCF project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is home to many of the most important modern open source projects, including Kubernetes. Today, the CNCF’s Technical Oversight Committee announced th
There’s nothing Automattic about balancing commercial growth with an open source developer community
The tech industry has made a full 180-degree turn with regard to open source in the 16 years since Matt Mullenweg founded Automattic, the commercial backer of open source CMS, WordPress.
The stars are aligning for federal IT open source software adoption
While the government has made a number of moves in a more open direction in recent years, the story of open source in federal IT has often seemed more about potential than reality.
Tecton teams with founder of Feast open source machine learning feature store
Tecton, the company that pioneered the notion of the machine learning feature store, has teamed up with the founder of the open source feature store project called Feast. Today the company announced t
Google Cloud joins the FinOps Foundation
Google Cloud today announced that it is joining the FinOps Foundation as a Premier Member. The FinOps Foundation is a relatively new open-source foundation, hosted by the Linux Foundation, that launch
Zilliz raises $43 million as investors rush to China’s open-source software
For years, founders and investors in China had little interest in open-source software because it did not seem like the most viable business model. Zilliz‘s latest financing round shows that att
Priyanka Sharma takes over the leadership of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the Linux Foundation-based home of open-source projects like Kubernetes, OpenTracing and Envoy, today announced that Dan Kohn, the long-time executive director o
The ONNX format becomes the newest Linux Foundation project
The Linux Foundation today announced that ONNX, the open format that makes machine learning models more portable, is now a graduate-level project inside of the organization’s AI Foundation. ONNX
Databricks brings its Delta Lake project to the Linux Foundation
Databricks, the big data analytics service founded by the original developers of Apache Spark, today announced that it is bringing its Delta Lake open-source project for building data lakes to the Lin
Google takes AMP to the OpenJS Foundation
AMP, Google’s somewhat controversial project for speeding up the mobile web, has always been open-source, but it also always felt like a Google project first. Today, however, Google announced th
Kubernetes co-founder Craig McLuckie is as tired of talking about Kubernetes as you are
“I’m so tired of talking about Kubernetes. I want to talk about something else,” joked Kubernetes co-founder and VP of R&D at VMware Craig McLuckie during a keynote interview at
How Pivotal got bailed out by fellow Dell family member, VMware
When Dell acquired EMC in 2016 for $67 billion, it created a complicated consortium of interconnected organizations. Some, like VMware and Pivotal, operate as completely separate companies. They have
Enterprise software is hot — who would have thought?
Once considered the most boring of topics, enterprise software is now getting infused with such energy that it is arguably the hottest space in tech.