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There’s nothing Automattic about balancing commercial growth with an open source developer community

TechCrunch

To get there, Automattic has to shepherd and evolve its developer community even as it empowers more and more of its open source contributors to take leadership roles in the future of the WordPress ecosystem. That proportion is actually lower for WordPress, where only about a third of developers are believed to be sponsored.

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History of MySQL Database

The Crazy Programmer

There were 3 engineers: David Axmark, Allan Larsson, and Micheal Widenius, who started their work on the MySQL server development in 1995. Later on Oracle, a US tech giant acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010, and MySQL is today owned by Oracle. After one month, source and Linux binary got released. The first version MySQL 1.0

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Before that, cloud computing itself took off in roughly 2010 (AWS was founded in 2006); and Agile goes back to 2000 (the Agile Manifesto dates back to 2001, Extreme Programming to 1999). Remember that these “units” are “viewed” by our users, who are largely professional software developers and programmers. What does this mean?

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The Future of Java

Datavail

Relatively few changes are needed to run a program on Windows and Linux, for example, making Java a good general-purpose programming language. Java has a very useful Application Programming Interface (API) that comes with the Java Development Kit (JDK). Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, the original owner of Java, in 2010.

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How to Use Open Source Software: Features, Main Software Types, and Selection Advice

Altexsoft

February 1998 became one of the notable months in the software development community: The Open Source Initiative (OSI) corporation was founded and the open source label was introduced. The term represents a software development approach based on collaborative improvement and source code sharing. Open source vs proprietary software.

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Attend the 6 Feb @Cloudera Federal Forum: For the Analyst, Data Scientist, #BigData Technologist in DC

CTOvision

4:15 PM Adjourn/Networking SocialTrack 3 – Hadoop App Development Lab (Pre-Registration Required, Limited Space Available). 1:00 PM Hadoop App Development Lab. Previous to HP, Tom served as CEO of enterprise security company ArcSight , which HP acquired in 2010. 3:30 PM The Art and Application of Hadoop. Mr. David R.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

Linux is six years old. In Würzburg, Germany, Eric Raymond presents an essay called "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" [1] at the Linux Kongress. The democratization of programming arrived with the public Internet in 1991, and within a decade it became clear that the old model for developing software was obsolete. Amazon is three.