Apigee: how to monetise an API

Apigee (pronounced: ah-pa-gee, not API-gee), the API management company has announced its new Edge API software designed to help developer shops monetise API creation, to other app developers.
Enterprise-grade API monetisation models
The software itself now supports...What does the Apache Kudu say?

Some software development operations (on the straight up vendor side) have marketing managers, evangelists and product leads. Other software operations have all-volunteer developers, stewards and incubators… and that’s how the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) describes its team of happy cohorts...
OpenStack on Kubernetes, Mirantis fuels Fuel with Google Intel heat

It's all hands to the cloud platform pumps over at the OpenStack community this month. For one, Mirantis (a software, services and training company) is buddying up with Google and Intel to develop Fuel, the leading lifecycle management tool for...
Splicing data machinery — what is scale-out data processing, really?

Splice Machine is an open source RDBMS (relational database management system) powered by Hadoop and Spark. The firm’s latest product updates paint something of an interesting picture in terms of what types of intelligence are actually involved in scale-out data processing. With Hadoop’s...
Flash in the Drupal pan? Acquia releases Lightning for Drupal 8

Acquia Lightning arrives this month as a freely available open source distribution of Drupal, which, in itself is a free and open source content management framework written in PHP. Acquia does, obviously, also offer 'paid for' elements of functionality. Drupal (now at version 8) is used by...
Oracle on Java, a ‘well defined proposal’ for the future

Oracle is committed to Java and has a very well defined proposal for the next version of the Java EE specification. This was the official confirmation from Oracle spokesperson Mike Moeller in his role as veep for marketing communications and global PR. Moeller made his proclamation in a...
Black Duck in HPE: new recipe for oven-ready vulnerability crispiness

Black Duck exists to make open source code usage safer. The firm’s software is built to help deal with the fact that many firms today use a mix of custom and open source code. It detects, prioritises and fixes known open source vulnerabilities. HP has now integrated Black Duck’s core...
Mirantis: how to operate OpenStack cloud, but easier

Mirantis OpenStack 9.0 arrives this week as a newly updated set of software designed to simplify lifecycle management of OpenStack. Based on the Mitaka Openstack release, Mirantis co-founder Boris Renski explains that the current ‘improvements’ brought forward are based on real-world...
Could open source help kill piracy in Romania?

This is a special guest piece written for the Computer Weekly Open Source Inside blog by Romanian technology journalist Andrada Fiscutean. As part of various roles in her homeland, Fiscutean works as news editor for PRO FM radio in...
Bulgarian Parliament mandates open source, отворен код

Open source software penetration is making great headway in governmental circles both here in the United Kingdom and throughout the rest of Europe… and the world. So much is this the case in some territories that official acts are being passed. This month sees the Bulgarian Parliament pass...