At the Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) in New York City, the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) Dec. 8 announced the results of its 2022 State of Open Source in Financial Services Survey. The results were — to no … Continue reading →

Opinion Linus Torvalds is happy to tell you that Linux release numbers aren’t a big deal. As the Linux supremo said of the 6.0 release: “Despite the major number change, there’s nothing fundamentally different about this release – I’ve long … Continue reading →

It has been about a year since the security hole at the heart of the open source Java logging library Apache Log4j was revealed. The resulting zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2021-44228, aka Log4Shell, is still with us today. That’s crazy! But it’s … Continue reading →

Opinion It’s a toss-up between Elon Musk’s management misadventures and Twitter’s technical troubles as to which will cause the most damage. Twitter is in trouble. I mean, who blunders his way into a fight with Apple only to later claim … Continue reading →

Patent trolls are the bane of companies large and small. So, it should come as no surprise that Amazon and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have joined the Open Invention Network (OIN) — the world’s largest patent non-aggression consortium. OIN has … Continue reading →

Lately, I’ve noticed a lot of confusion about Red Hat’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and related distros, such as AlmaLinux OS, Oracle Linux, and Rocky Linux. In addition, there are Red Hat’s own RHEL variants, CentOS Stream and Fedora. … Continue reading →