Anthropic creates a Skills issue; Oracle jumps in the lake
Today on Product Saturday: Anthropic may have found a way to deliver on the promise of agents, Oracle puts up a lakehouse, and the quote of the week.
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: What the first week of Q1 Big Tech earnings says about the enterprise market heading into the rest of the year, the creators of NATS are trying to pull off the old-fashioned "takesies-backsies" gambit with the CNCF, and the latest enterprise moves.