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December 13, 2018
by sjvn01
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Major China company, Alibaba, joins Open Invention Network patent protection group

The American and Chinese trade war is near to boiling. The American attempt to extradite Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou has failed; China might be behind the Marriott data breach; and China might’ve caused a massive internet disruption. But one perpetual sore point between the US and … Continue reading →

December 12, 2018
by sjvn01
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Bitnami Kubernetes Production Runtime released

If you want to use a safe third-party container, smart people know they should turn to Bitnami. This company packages, deploys, and maintains applications in virtually any format for any platform. Now, at KubeCon in Seattle, Bitnami announced its Kubernetes release: Bitnami Kubernetes Production Runtime (BKPR) 1.0, … Continue reading →

December 11, 2018
by sjvn01
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Kubernetes etcd data project joins CNCF

How do you store data across a Kubernetescontainer cluster? With etcd. This essential part of Kubernetes has been managed by CoreOS/Red Hat. No longer. Now, the open-source etcd project has been moved from Red Hat to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). .Kubernetes etcd … Continue reading →

December 11, 2018
by sjvn01
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​Canonical makes Kubernetes moves

When last I spoke to Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical‘s founder, in Berlin, he told me that — when it comes to Kubernetes — enterprise “Kubernetes runs on Ubuntu.” Kubernetes, the most popular cloud container orchestration program, “makes life easier for people who want portability across … Continue reading →

December 7, 2018
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Edge goes Chromium, and open source wins the browser wars

Edge goes Chromium, and open source wins the browser wars

A little over twenty years ago, US Attorney General Janet Reno stated Microsoft had “used its monopoly power to develop a choke hold on the browser software needed to access the internet.” Although Microsoft would lose United States v. Microsoft Corporation, … Continue reading →