Venture Beast

MARCH 12, 2021

Open source or proprietary? License fees? How much does a database cost? It depends. Support contracts? Here are some of the factors. Read More.

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Open Source Licensing Oracle Trends 132

GeekWire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Microsoft Build developer conference in Seattle in May 2019. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) When I met Satya Nadella in 1992, we were both engineers at Microsoft, and I never would have guessed we’d go on to be life-long friends or that he’d end up running the company for over a decade.

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Microsoft Open Source Cloud Apple 125

Tech Republic

APRIL 30, 2024

Learn how to access Meta’s new AI model Llama 3, which sets itself apart by being open to use under a license agreement.

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Licensing How To Open Source Artificial Intelligence 114

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Hortonworks was already available on Microsoft''s Azure cloud, and Amazon''s AWS. Microsoft Shows More Love For Linux, HDInsight Now Supports Ubuntu On Azure (microsoft-news.com). An Open Microsoft: Azure HDInsight Available for Linux (windowsitpro.com). Read more here on DataCenterKnowledge.com.

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Vox

JULY 28, 2023

But more importantly, its open source nature adds new urgency to an important ethical debate over who should control AI — and whether it can be made safe. Zuckerberg also made the case for why it’s better for leading AI models to be “open source,” which means making the technology’s underlying code largely available for anyone to use.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Microsoft, Google, Salesforce—all the major players are all in on AI, so it only makes sense to leverage that. Open-source AI Open source has long been a driver of innovation in the AI space. Many data science tools and base models are open source, or are based heavily on open-source projects.

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Enterprise Enterprise Trends Open Source 130

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

Several gen AI vendors, including OpenAI, Microsoft, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and others, have had suits filed against them. One option, however, is to use open source software. There are a number of models, of various licenses, currently available to the public. Then there are the lawsuits.

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Open Source Fractional CTO Training Enterprise 98

Dataconomy

JANUARY 8, 2024

The debate over AI copyright lawsuits centers on the use of copyrighted data for training AI models ( Image credit ) OpenAI and Microsoft: NYT lawsuit Additionally, The New York Times has launched a lawsuit against both OpenAI and Microsoft. Filed in November 2022, the case has seen repeated dismissal attempts by Microsoft and GitHub.

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The Verge

JANUARY 5, 2021

Today we are announcing a breakthrough: we have secured a license from the US government to offer GitHub to developers in Iran. The changes are due to an exemption granted by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the sanction enforcement arm of the US Treasury Department.

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Open Source Licensing Policies Course 80

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2023

They integrate with Slack, Microsoft Messenger, and other chat programs where they read the language you use, then turn on when you type in a trigger phrase. Mallet , an open-source, Java-based package for statistical NLP, document classification, clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, and other ML applications to text.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

MARCH 2, 2009

This week is the Microsoft Public Sector CIO summit in that village named Redmond “across the pond” from Seattle. In this environment, it sure is tempting to chuck Microsoft’s Office and web products and their complicated Enterprise and Select Agreements in favor of open source equivalents. Why is that?

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Open Source Microsoft Budget Government 28

GeekWire

MAY 11, 2023

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy highlighted generative AI in his recent shareholder letter , and Microsoft continues to push out a stream of AI product announcements. Batalov touted Amazon’s Code Whisperer , which offers a tool that vets AI-generated code and provides links to sources, while also checking for licensing requirements.

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Enterprise Enterprise Engineering Open Source 109

Vox

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Last fall, a group of anonymous copyright owners sued Open AI and Microsoft , which owns the GitHub software platform, for allegedly infringing on the rights of developers who’ve contributed software to GitHub. Microsoft and OpenAI collaborated to build GitHub Copilot , which says it can use AI to write code.

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Engineering Licensing Microsoft Open Source 98

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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Data Open Source Analysis Big Data 140

The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

Windows getting shown up by Linux was not allowed, so Microsoft did some Microsoft maneuvering, and by January 2008 the Eee PC was running Windows XP instead. Chromebooks exist, and both Apple and Microsoft worry about them in familiar ways. We hadn’t invented the phrase “cloud services” yet.). Did any of this even happen ?

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Windows Linux Operating Systems Intel 132

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community. Microsoft recently introduced some new remote development extensions for Visual Studio Code. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Security Michael Tsai weighs in on the Microsoft signing key that was stolen, sharing several links with commentary on this matter. Fortunately, this Microsoft Security Response Center article not only shows how to use Azure Serial Console to compromise sensitive information, but also shows how to detect exploitation activity.

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Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

GeekWire

JULY 21, 2023

For artists and creators, and those who purchase or license their work, it can be a confusing time to consider how AI will impact who made what and who owns it. ’ Others will actually say, ‘I own the outputs and you have a license. AI’s Evolving Legal, Regulatory & Ethical Landscape.” Maybe you do.

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Artificial Intelligence Tools Licensing Training 95

GeekWire

AUGUST 4, 2023

Other: “Includes sales related to various other offerings, such as certain licensing and distribution of video content, health care services, and shipping services, and our co-branded credit card agreements.” ” [Rose 22% to $10.7 ” [This segment, not included in the chart above, rose 26% to $1.3

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.Net Artificial Intelligence Web Services Advertising 89

Dataconomy

MAY 10, 2023

Open source business intelligence software is a game-changer in the world of data analysis and decision-making. With open source BI software, businesses no longer need to rely on expensive proprietary software solutions that can be inflexible and difficult to integrate with existing systems.

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Open Source Software Software Business Intelligence 71

Kitaboo

JANUARY 8, 2020

We also had the Readium Chrome Application and support for Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Microsoft Edge. Anyone can also use the Readium source code without a commercial license. It’s totally free and permissively licensed. You will no longer need to pay any license fees like you had to do earlier. The Future.

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eBook Licensing Open Source Applications 97

Flexagon

MARCH 7, 2023

SCA is an automated process that identifies open-source software in a codebase, and evaluates the security, license compliance, and code quality. This tool allows a user to run scans on Dependencies, and generates a report for known vulnerable components used in source.

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Tools Open Source Devops Report 78

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. Open Source Companies • Redhat $13B • Cloudera $3B • MongoDB $1.6B • Docker $.5B

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

For instance, Microsoft provides up to 10 free licenses of Microsoft 365 Business Premium to qualifying nonprofits, which include advanced cybersecurity features. Open-source tools can also be valuable; for example, tools like KeePass for password management or ClamAV for antivirus protection are free and widely respected.

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Nonprofit Strategy Budget Backup 89

Phil Windley

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Instead of enshrining Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft as the Internet's permanent overlords and then striving to make them as benign as possible, we can fix the Internet by making Big Tech less central to its future. Beyond health pass applications, things like mobile drivers licenses need to be interoperable to be useful.

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Travel Internet Apple Hotels 101

CTOvision

OCTOBER 18, 2013

H2O is the open source math & machine learning platform for speed and scale. Amazon and Microsoft. Leveraging both structured and unstructured data built on the power of Apache Lucene/Solr open source search, LucidWorks delivers unmatched stability, scalability, and time-to-delivery for search applications.

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Big Data Open Source Data Enterprise 247

Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Prior to this year VMware has consistently included new features of the product at vary levels of vSphere licensing. When they introduced the concept of distributed virtual switches it was licensed via a higher level of licensing for vSphere. General Microsoft NSX OpenStack VMWare' VMware hasn’t had a death ear.

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Vmware Licensing Virtualization Enterprise 85

Dataconomy

JULY 26, 2023

The FreeWillys were published by Stability’s subsidiary CarperAI under a “non-commercial license,” which prohibits their usage for profit-making, enterprise, or business objectives. Instead, they are intended to further research and promote open access in the AI community.

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Meeting Artificial Intelligence Training Research 36

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Chart Museum, an open source Helm chart repository server, also recently released an update. OpenTracing and Jaeger (Jaeger is an open source implementation of the specifications created by OpenTracing) are next up for Rice to review, and she shares that deploying Jaeger has gotten easier via the Jaeger Operator.

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Open Source Vmware Architecture Cloud 60

Kitaboo

AUGUST 9, 2023

It allows you to save your documents in their native format, ePUB, PDF, and DOCX and is also compatible with Microsoft Word in case you also want to work on the document on a Windows PC. Plus, the cost of getting a licensed copy is more expensive in comparison to the other options available.

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eBook Tools Windows Software 78

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2023

Many, if not most, enterprises deploying generative AI are starting with OpenAI, typically via a private cloud on Microsoft Azure. And many organizations already have a relationship with Microsoft, and are comfortable with the security, manageability, and enterprise support they get from the company.

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Open Source Training Licensing Enterprise 98

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Microsoft » Popular. Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers. Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers. The interior of a container packed with servers at a Microsoft data center in Chicago. Image: Microsoft Corp). Microsoft: 300,000 Servers in Container Farm. By: Rich Miller July 15th, 2013.

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Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). When including the cost of software, hardware, and licensing/support, the cost per terabyte (TB) of an MPP system is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars [4]. Hadoop continues to mature as a widely supported open source solution nearing its ten year anniversary.

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Big Data Data Analysis Fractional CTO 286

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

“Captain KVM,” aka Jon Benedict, takes on the discussion of enterprise storage vs. open source storage solutions in OpenStack environments. Vladan Seget has a look at Microsoft ReFS. All good stuff, thanks Mike! One good point that Jon makes is that solutions need to be evaluated on a variety of criteria.

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Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2013

Microsoft, Citrix and open source hypervisors have quickly become good enough for basic virtualization use cases. VMware could come in with their ROI calculator and show even with a hefty license cost and hardware investment almost any organization would save money. VMware has some great technology.

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Vmware CTO Virtualization VOIP 64

Galido

MARCH 25, 2019

It is an open source software under the Apache 2.0 license that can be downloaded and used free of charge. More than 5% of internet users continue to use Microsoft systems, more than 17% use Firefox, 3% use Safari and 1% use Opera. Google Chrome.

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Tools Applications Programming Mobile 84

Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 23, 2007

One of the key themes of my presentation was the Open Economy, in which everything is laid out open, across business processes, visibility, transparency, borders, industry boundaries and more. When attending an information technology seminar at MIT, McEwen drew inspiration from the session on open source software.

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