The HR fat lady sings for Opera Software
The fat lady has sung for Opera’s old HR system as Workday hits the high note.
Archive: Open source
OpenStack Summit - can the community conquer the wider market?
"Forget the technological announcements, the key takeaway from the summit is the sense of the community. Maxwell Cooter reports from the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo.
Oracle OpenWorld 2015 - Ticketmaster talks database complexity as it heads for MySQL Cloud
Ticketmaster began as a Microsoft shop, it's now using MySQL on premise and is headed for MySQL in the cloud. All with the aim of improving online customer experience.
Coupa Inspire - entering the age of Postmodern ERP
The enterprise is entering the business-centric era of Postmodern ERP. Or at least it is according to Gartner.
In pursuit of frictionless IT, Red Hat buys Ansible
Here's why Red Hat acquired Ansible, and the important takeaways about enterprise IT's journey to the cloud, devops and the world of frictionless IT
When we no longer program with wires
What’s happening today is configuration at ever more specific levels, not merely in massive and monolithic applications but in re-composable components, says Salesforce's Peter Coffee.
General Electric powers up digital growth on the Industrial Internet
General Electric's making some bold predictions for growth from its digital operations, but can it deliver the platform for the Industrial Internet?
Huawei pitches first Disaster Recovery service for OpenStack
At the Huawei Cloud Congress, the company launched what it claims is the first OpenStack-based cloud Disaster Recovery service. Martin Banks casts a quizzical eye over the claims.
Spark outpacing Hadoop? Survey says yes
Databricks survey of Spark usage provides insights into an open source platform that supports multiple languages and use platforms. This is very promising for the future of big data and streaming analytics.
Rackspace – titan or tweenie of tomorrow?
Not big enough to bash Amazon, and perhaps already too big to be a specialist CSP focused on a few business sectors, Rackspace may find itself in the middle of several stools and not quite able to sit on any of them.
Rackspace re-invention brings slow public cloud revenues
Rackspace turned in a profit as part of its continued re-invention. But there are bumps in the road that are slowing down its transformation.
Virgin America pledges Netflix-in-the-air wifi speeds
Virgin America's used wifi as a competitive differentiator for years, but there's more to come, says CEO David Cush.
EnterpriseDB bids to get Oracle users off the RAC
How about an open source alternative to upgrading Oracle Applications, especially when that upgrade path means moving to RAC? EnterpriseDB reckons it can oblige.