DataStax: balancing yin & yang in the holistic dream

Computer Weekly Open Source Insider talks to Patrick McFadin in his role as vice president for developer relations at DataStax. DataStax is a...
Progress releases NativeScript 4.0

Progress has announced the release of NativeScript 4.0, an open source framework for delivering cross-platform, native iOS and Android apps. NativeScript apps are built using JavaScript, or by using any language that ‘transpiles’ to JavaScript, such as TypeScript. NOTE:...
Build, Deploy & Iterate is the ‘new’ Extract, Transform & Load

Alfresco Software has updated its open source process automation, content management and information governance software. The immodestly named Alfresco Insight Engine creates dashboard-style statistics and data trend reports that previously required what the company decries as more arduous and...
Mozilla uncovers ‘new conceptual framework’ for open source

Mozilla has partnered with Open Tech Strategies for a research project, reviewing the open source industry and studying Mozilla projects closely. Open Tech Strategies is a services consultancy that aims to provide advice on open source implementation. The company says its clients come to...
Software AG Cumulocity: how an IoT ‘platform’ works

Every company wants to be a platform company, this is one of life’s great software industry truths. Once you have a ‘platform play’, then other applications (or application components and other discrete compartmentalised services) can be ‘coded to it’ and the platform itself can be...
Open integration is ‘key tenet’ of Red Hat Virtualization

The open hybrid cloud lies ahead of us, this is the way of things. This truism (if indeed it is one) is impacting the way firms like Red Hat are building out virtualisation technologies. Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 is the newest release of the company’s Kernel-based Virtual Machine...