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Microsoft: we were wrong about open source

The Verge

Microsoft has admitted it was wrong about open source, after the company battled it and Linux for years at the height of its desktop domination. Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously branded Linux “a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches” back in 2001.

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Log4j flaw needs immediate remediation

Network World

After nearly two years of adopting major network and security changes wrought by COVID-19 and hybrid work, weary IT network and security teams didn’t need another big issue to take care of, but they have one: Stemming potential damage from the recently disclosed vulnerability in open source Java-logging Apache Log4j software.

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Log4j flaw needs immmediate remediation

Network World

After nearly two years of adopting major network and security changes wrought by COVID-19 and hybrid work, weary IT network and security teams didn’t need another big issue to take care of, but they have one: Stemming potential damage from the recently disclosed vulnerability in open source Java-logging Apache Log4j software.

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What Executives Should Know About Shift-Left Security

CIO Business Intelligence

By Zachary Malone, SE Academy Manager at Palo Alto Networks The term “shift left” is a reference to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) that describes the phases of the process developers follow to create an application. The term was first coined by Larry Smith in 2001.

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Vote for Deal of the Year: Affini-T Therapeutics, Bungie, Copper, First Mode, MotherDuck

GeekWire

based game development shop, once part of the tech giant, drove the success of the original Xbox in 2001 with Halo: Combat Evolved. The business combination blends First Mode’s engineering operation with Anglo American’s nuGen effort to develop a zero-emission system for hauling ore. The Bellevue-Wash.-based million in funding.

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Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012

SPF13

In the past few years open source has made Big Data accessible to the rest of us. 20072008 2005 2006 2003 2004 2001 2002. In 2006 Facebook started with off the shelf software, but quickly turned to developing their own custom built solutions. .@ spf13 : “Moore’s Law applies to more than just CPUs.It How BIG is it?

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Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012

SPF13

In the past few years open source has made Big Data accessible to the rest of us. 20072008 2005 2006 2003 2004 2001 2002. In 2006 Facebook started with off the shelf software, but quickly turned to developing their own custom built solutions. .@ spf13 : “Moore’s Law applies to more than just CPUs.It How BIG is it?