Category Archives: linux foundation

How Pivotal got bailed out by fellow Dell family member, VMware

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When Dell acquired EMC in 2016 for $67 billion, it created a complicated consortium of interconnected organizations. Some, like VMware and Pivotal, operate as completely separate companies. They have their own boards of directors, can acquire companies and are publicly traded on the stock market. Yet they work closely within the Dell, partnering where it […] Continue reading How Pivotal got bailed out by fellow Dell family member, VMware→

Enterprise software is hot — who would have thought?

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Once considered the most boring of topics, enterprise software is now getting infused with such energy that it is arguably the hottest space in tech. Continue reading Enterprise software is hot — who would have thought?→

IBM is moving OpenPower Foundation to The Linux Foundation

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IBM makes the Power Series chips, and as part of that has open sourced some of the underlying technologies to encourage wider use of these chips. The open source pieces have been part of the OpenPower Foundation. Today, the company announced it was moving the foundation under The Linux Foundation, and while it was at […] Continue reading IBM is moving OpenPower Foundation to The Linux Foundation→

The Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form New Foundation to Support osquery Community

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Engineers and developers from Facebook, Google, Trail of Bits and more to help advance osquery through neutral forum SAN FRANCISCO – June 18, 2019 –Facebook and the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open sour… Continue reading The Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form New Foundation to Support osquery Community→

Takeaways from KubeCon; the latest on Kubernetes and cloud native development

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Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Frederic Lardinois and Ron Miller discuss major announcements that came out of the Linux Foundation’s European KubeCon/CloudNativeCon conference and discuss the future of Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. Nearly doubling in […] Continue reading Takeaways from KubeCon; the latest on Kubernetes and cloud native development→

Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth on dueling open-source foundations

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At the Open Infrastructure Summit, which was previously known as the OpenStack Summit, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth used his keynote to talk about the state of open-source foundations — and what often feels like the increasing competition between them. “I know for a fact that nobody asked to replace dueling vendors with dueling foundations,” he […] Continue reading Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth on dueling open-source foundations→

Open-source communities fight over telco market

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When you think of MWC Barcelona, chances are you’re thinking about the newest smartphones and other mobile gadgets, but that’s only half the story. Actually, it’s probably far less than half the story because the majority of the business that’s done at MWC is enterprise telco business. Not too long ago, that business was all […] Continue reading Open-source communities fight over telco market→

Linux Foundation launches Hyperledger Grid to provide framework for supply chain projects

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The Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project has a singular focus on the blockchain, but this morning it announced a framework for building supply chain projects where it didn’t want blockchain stealing the show. In fact, the foundation is careful to point out that this project is not specifically about the blockchain, so much as providing the building […] Continue reading Linux Foundation launches Hyperledger Grid to provide framework for supply chain projects→

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds etcd to its open-source stable

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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the open-source home of projects like Kubernetes and Vitess, today announced that its technical committee has voted to bring a new project on board. That project is etcd, the distributed key-value store that was first developed by CoreOS (now owned by Red Hat, which in turn will soon be […] Continue reading The Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds etcd to its open-source stable→

Someone Defaced Linux.org Website With ‘Goatse’ And Anti-Diversity Tirade

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Someone took control of a Linux unofficial community website and replaced its regular content with a NSFW meme, a dox of a transgender open source developer, and anti-diversity messages. Continue reading Someone Defaced Linux.org Website With ‘Goatse’ And Anti-Diversity Tirade→