In the early days of VMware, Microsoft could well have edged it out of the market, if it weren’t for one key strategy. “In some senses, VMware has over the course of time had to navigate among other bigger companies,...
On Thursday, Microsoft engineer Sasha Levin wrote: “The Linux usage on our cloud has surpassed Windows.” Linux is an open source operating system that is popular with developers. Microsoft spent a long time considering...
Five years ago, Google engineers made the cloud-computing project Kubernetes available as open source. Although there was internal debate at Google over whether to give it away, the company believes it was the right choice — and...
Amazon Web Services had a head start in 2006 when it offered software developers something they couldn’t refuse: access to virtually unlimited computing power in Amazon’s data centers. And that’s how Amazon’...
Even at Microsoft, many cloud software developers had stopped using Windows, and started using Apple’s Mac laptops and desktops. Indeed, go to any developer event or startup office, and it’s common to see row after row...
Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system that secretly runs the internet and is the basis for Android, was recently asked what he would change about the tech world that his technology helped create, if he could. H...
Open source software companies like MongoDB are making drastic moves to protect their intellectual property from cloud giants like Amazon or Alibaba — but a clash between MongoDB and $31 billion software giant Red Hat highlights...
On Sunday, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty made a bold, head-turning claim about her company’s $34 billion deal to acquire open source software maker Red Hat. “The acquisition of Red Hat is a game-changer. It changes everything ...
IBM just announced a colossal deal to acquire Red Hat for a whopping $34 billion. It’s good news for IBM in the cloud market, analysts say, but some software developers are panicking. Valued at $190 a share, Red Hat would be...
There’s a strong case to be made that Linus Torvalds is the single most important programmer on the planet. Now, he’s temporarily stepping away from Linux, the software for which he’s best known, to “get so...