Matt Asay
For open source vs. proprietary, AWS might have it both ways
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May 8, 2019
For open source vs. proprietary, AWS might have it both ways
For all the criticism that Amazon Web Services has received for allegedly stripmining open source software for corporate gain, the…
Oracle’s and IBM’s hybrid cloud defense may not hold
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April 19, 2019
Oracle’s and IBM’s hybrid cloud defense may not hold
Both Oracle and IBM have missed out on a $10 billion U.S. Department of Defense cloud contract. Amazon Web Services…
Why Oracle is happy to lose to AWS and MongoDB
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April 5, 2019
Why Oracle is happy to lose to AWS and MongoDB
Mark Hurd, the CEO of Oracle, is a numbers guy. In a recent CNBC interview, he was asked about competition…
Programming languages are now driven by corporations: Should we be worried?
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March 26, 2019
Programming languages are now driven by corporations: Should we be worried?
There once was a time when a starving PhD student could improvise a new programming language and within a few…
Open source licenses may not matter so much any more
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March 14, 2019
Open source licenses may not matter so much any more
After all the drama around MongoDB’s change of license from the open source Affero General Public License (AGPL) to the…
The ugly truth about cloud computing in the enterprise
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March 4, 2019
The ugly truth about cloud computing in the enterprise
One surprising finding of Flexera’s RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud report is that 84 percent of enterprises surveyed have a…
Cloud vendors are who’s powering open source now
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February 22, 2019
Cloud vendors are who’s powering open source now
By some accounts, the open source world is about to end as evil cloud empires suck the marrow from fragile…
Why IBM/Red Hat just might become a cloud powerhouse
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February 11, 2019
Why IBM/Red Hat just might become a cloud powerhouse
Amazon Web Services is the clear cloud winner, sitting on a run rate of $27 billion and continuing to grow…
AWS vs. open source: DocumentDB is the latest battlefront
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January 9, 2019
AWS vs. open source: DocumentDB is the latest battlefront
You’ve probably missed it, but there’s a religious war being fought on Twitter. (No, really!) On one side is an…
Kubernetes is so hard—but worth the pain
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December 21, 2018
Kubernetes is so hard—but worth the pain
It’s not even Christmas yet but the Kubernetes messiah has already been born. As a recent Heptio survey found, 60…
How to become a transformative enterprise in the cloud
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December 7, 2018
How to become a transformative enterprise in the cloud
Cloud computing isn’t a technology problem solved by moving workloads out of private data centers and into public clouds. As…
AWS adds blockchain and time-series databases
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November 28, 2018
AWS adds blockchain and time-series databases
Amazon has spent more than a decade trying to free itself of Oracle’s “one database to rule them all” approach,…
Why Google Cloud’s new boss will fail like the old boss
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November 27, 2018
Why Google Cloud’s new boss will fail like the old boss
For years, Google Cloud Platform has built more geewizardy-type services than anyone else, leading the other cloud providers in things…
Sorry, Linux. Kubernetes is now the OS that matters
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November 20, 2018
Sorry, Linux. Kubernetes is now the OS that matters
The operating system no longer really matters. And for developers and the cloud, that means that Linux no longer really…
Microsoft’s attempt to fork Kubernetes via AKS will fail
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November 8, 2018
Microsoft’s attempt to fork Kubernetes via AKS will fail
Given some recent comments by Jason Zander, Microsoft’s executive vce president for Azure, it’s worth repeating: If you have a…