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

CIO

To become a software-powered organisation, companies must first identify and address the concerns of its developers in areas such as developer experience, developer velocity and software security. For example, close to 60% of respondents are using OSS for Database and 53% for Operating Systems.

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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

TechCrunch

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. “The result is reduced development costs and more freedom to innovate,” Linietsky said.

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How to upstream code to open source projects

InfoWorld

Code commonly flows downstream, from an open-source project into an organization’s own products. Upstreaming is the process of reversing that flow—contributing code back to an open-source project. To read this article in full, please click here

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Orkes, founded by the creators of Netflix’s open source Conductor workflow orchestration tool, comes out of stealth with $9.3M

TechCrunch

million in funding to fuel the mission, as well as to support the continued growth of the open-source Conductor community. The rise of Orkes underscores a very common route these days for open source tools. “ Orkes has the right team to bring enterprise-grade support and cloud services to this thriving community.”

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The Open-Source Philosophy

Perficient

Open-Source vs. Proprietary Software – What’s the Difference? To thoroughly grasp what open source is, one should understand what it is not. Open-source software grants its users a degree of accessibility that is not possible through its proprietary counterpart.

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Solving the Speed Paradox With Open Source PaaS

DevOps.com

On EC2 alone, AWS offers nearly 400 instance types across storage, networking and operating systems. The post Solving the Speed Paradox With Open Source PaaS appeared first on DevOps.com. Complicating this further is that users can choose from machines located in 24 regions and 77 availability zones.

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Linux as the new developer default at 37signals

David Heinemeier Hansson

Going forward, we're working to make Linux the default for developers and system operators (and welcoming Windows back in the mix for accounting/marketing). This has left me with little interest in going back to a commercial operating system as a daily development driver. Default doesn't mean edict, though.

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