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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced.

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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

PCF combines leading open-source software with our robust proprietary software to meet the exacting enterprise-grade requirements of large organizations, including the ability to operate and manage software across private and public cloud environments, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, VMware vSphere and OpenStack.

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boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017

BeyondVC

Yes, AWS and Azure will garner a bulk of this, but still requires significant new investment to easily monitor, manage and secure this sprawling infrastructure. areas we are keen on are securing open source at the dev level, managing security policies in enterprise for microservices architecture, IoT security, and biometrics.

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Viola Private Equity Pumps $7 Million into Zend

VC Cafe

V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

But because a large percentage of it is open-source AI is not limited to nation states, AI-powered cyber-attacks, deepfakes and AI software paired with commercially available drones can create “poor-man’s smart weapons” for use by rogue states, terrorists and criminals. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Windows Azure. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source).