Open source made the cloud in its image
Just as the Unix philosophy provided a blueprint for open source, open source practices and design principles provided a model for the cloud.
Stories by Matt Asay
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The secret to Kubernetes’ success
Kubernetes adoption is happening even faster than you think. Credit the project’s unusual degree of openness
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Open source companies are thriving in the cloud
Quick, can you spot the common link between MongoDB, DataStax, Redis Labs, Percona, Couchbase, and EnterpriseDB?
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Open source should learn from Linux, not MySQL
There has been a lot of talk about open source sustainability over the past few years, and for good reason.
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Do you really need Kubernetes?
Is Kubernetes the perfect defence against cloud lock-in, or a needlessly complex solution to a problem nobody has?
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Exposing 2 cloud and AI myths
If you think the cloud will drive data centres to extinction and that AI projects are doomed to fail, think again.
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Customer-driven open source is the future of software
The best software is software that companies build to scratch their own itches and address their own day-to-day needs
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How open source changed everything - again
We are all open sourcerors now. Let’s look back at some of the most significant open source innovations that got us here.
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HPE plus MapR: Too much Hadoop, not enough cloud
Cloud killed the fortunes of the Hadoop trinity - Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR - and that same cloud likely won’t rain success down on HPE.
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How PostgreSQL just might replace your Oracle database
Although heavily dependent on Oracle today, Salesforce seems to be seeking database freedom—and its efforts could result in the same freedom for all enterprises
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Why Oracle’s cloud bravado masks a deep database despair
Oracle is a fantastic database for yesteryear’s enterprise applications, but is a poor fit for modern, big data applications.
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Is Microsoft winning the cloud database war over AWS?
Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB's all-in-one-approach is what developers want, rather than specific tools such as AWS DynamoDB, Redshift and Aurora.
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Open source innovation is now all about vendor on-ramps
AWS, Microsoft, and Google are all racing to figure out how to turn their innovations into open source on-ramps to their proprietary services
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Why Alibaba Cloud faces a steep challenge outside China
Alibaba Cloud seeks to displace AWS as the world's leading cloud provider. But in China it's protected from competition through government ties.
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Alibaba Cloud faces a steep challenge outside China
Alibaba’s cloud is the No. 3 public cloud globally—not Google—and it seeks to displace AWS as No. 1. But in China it is protected from competition through government ties
