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The Significance of Open Source Software in the Digital-First Future Enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

As companies shift their focus from the digital transformation of individual processes to the business outcomes enabled by a digitally transformed organisation, software engineering will become a core enterprise capability. For example, close to 60% of respondents are using OSS for Database and 53% for Operating Systems.

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Inside Microsoft’s open source program office

Venture Beast

Stormy Peters, director of Microsoft's open source programs office, gives the lowdown on the evolution and role of Microsoft's OSPO. Read More.

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The Oculus Go’s operating system is being unlocked, John Carmack announces

The Verge

Most notably, it was the release of Doom ’s source code in the late ‘90s that has allowed the classic shooter to be hacked into dozens of unusual devices from ATMs to digital cameras. This open-sourcing tradition continued up until the Doom 3 engine, whose source code was released in 2011.

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A hack nearly gained access to millions of computers. Here’s what we should learn from this.

Vox

One of the most fascinating and frightening incidents in computer security history started in 2022 with a few pushy emails to the mailing list for a small, one-person open source project. Linux is an open source operating system — as opposed to closed systems from companies like Apple — that runs on tens of millions of devices.)

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Linux has made it to Mars

The Verge

“This the first time we’ll be flying Linux on Mars,” NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) senior engineer Tim Canham said in an interview with the the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It’s called F’ (pronounced “F prime”). pic.twitter.com/bsx0HukK9P — @mikko (@mikko) February 19, 2021.

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Salesforce IT injects generative AI to ease its massive datacenter migration

CIO Business Intelligence

When you’re tasked with migrating 200,000 servers to a new operating system, a helping hand is very welcome indeed. In the gold rush race to the cloud, many SaaS vendors have built their offerings on widely available open-source platforms such as CentOS but not all give commercial support anymore.

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Technology Short Take 173

Scott Lowe

Russ White laments some of the issues facing network engineering. A set of vulnerabilities in the open source reference implementation of the UEFI specification has been uncovered. I think I’ve linked to Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source newsletter” before; it’s such a useful resource.