Today: A deep dive into a dispute between the backers of NATS and the CNCF, which is just the latest example of changing norms in open-source software, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
When the CNCF accepts open-source projects, it requires that any trademarks related to the project be handed over. Synadia never did that, and is now backing down from an attempt to use its ownership of the trademark as leverage to regain control of NATS.
Today on Product Saturday: Snyk introduces an API security tool, Relyance follows your data on its journey, and the quote of the week.
When the CNCF accepts open-source projects, it requires that any trademarks related to the project be handed over. Synadia never did that, and is now backing down from an attempt to use its ownership of the trademark as leverage to regain control of NATS.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) was introduced last November by Anthropic, which called it "an open standard that enables developers to build secure, two-way connections between their data sources and AI-powered tools." After kicking the tires for a few months, vendors are jumping on board.
Vercel's serverless infrastructure was designed at a time when speed was the most important goal. AI apps are a little different, and Fluid Compute is an effort to rebuild that infrastructure for the AI era.
Even companies eager to jump on the GenAI bandwagon have struggled to organize their data and get past deployment hurdles, and nobody likes to spend all that time, effort, and money to build technology that can't be shipped because it can't be trusted.
AWS didn't ignore AI during Garman's presentation Tuesday, but it spent a significant amount of time on the services that turned it into a $100-billion a year enterprise computing powerhouse: compute, storage, and databases.
Despite recent challenges to their hegemony, x86 chips still power the vast majority of cloud and on-premises servers in use today. However, over all those years Intel and AMD tweaked x86 in subtle but incompatible ways to suit their own needs, and Tuesday's agreement is a promise to unify x86.
This week a U.K. regulatory agency published summaries of hearings it conducted this past July with AWS, Microsoft, and Google Their responses provide an interesting look into how the cloud providers see themselves, their competitors, and the current state of the market.
For years, Oracle tried to convince longtime database customers who wanted to shed their on-premises data centers to run those databases on Oracle's public infrastructure cloud, slamming AWS at every turn. Times have changed.
A generation of cloud architects, developers, and systems engineers has stayed loyal to AWS over nearly two decades in part because of its reputation for supporting anything it launched that was used by a customer to build their infrastructure. That commitment appears to be changing.
Kubernetes has become the second-most widely used open-source project in the world, behind only Linux itself, thanks to a dedicated community that celebrated its 10th birthday last week.
The AI boom is pushing the limits of clean-energy sources, forcing utilities to push back on new data-center construction plans and keep their coal-fired plants running. A relatively small but fast-growing number of people believe the solution is nuclear power.
Microsoft is bent on installing Copilots into all of its services across Azure, Microsoft 365, and GitHub, which continues to enjoy the most visible success of Microsoft's AI kick.
