Matt Asay

For open source vs. proprietary, AWS might have it both ways
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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