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Restricted Source Licensing Is Here

Forrester IT

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. are contributing back […]

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Elastic CEO reflects on Amazon spat, license switch, and the principles of open source

Venture Beast

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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NSA Releases A New Technology to Open Source Community

CTOvision

On 25 November NSA announced the release of an new technology called Niagarafiles or NiFi that enterprises can use to automate data flows among multiple computer networks. Here is their press release : NSA Releases First in Series of Software Products to Open Source Community. Burger, Director of the NSA TTP.

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Dispute between Elastic and AWS highlights ongoing battle over open source business model

GeekWire

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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Report: 70% of devs struggle with transitioning to open source

Venture Beast

Results point to a clear desire for license cost savings, code portability and strong community backing offered by open source technologies. Read More.

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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups

CTOvision

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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Our Freemium Future: Development teams take advantage of free, entry-level versions of software 

CTOvision

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? Enterprise freemium has come along, though, at a very interesting time.

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