Here are some ICT trends for year 2019 picked from various sources (linked to sources) and edited by me:
General: From AI to Moore’s Law, the entire industry is deep in the throes of massive changes. The future will be characterized by smart devices delivering increasingly insightful digital services everywhere. While CPUs continue to evolve, performance is no longer limited to a single processor type or process geometry.
Business: There seems to be a clear evidence from this research that businesses are adopting and looking to capitalise on the benefits of Big Data, the Internet Of Things and Sensor technology for their mobile workforces.
Open source: 2019 Will Be the Year of Open Source in software and even in hardware. We saw more activity in open source than ever before in 2018. And the momentum isn’t likely to slow down in 2019.
Web is mobile: According to the statistics of FICORA, Ofcom, the PC has lost its place as the first device and platform for web browsing. Almost half of the web browses the web with a smart phone, which places a requirement on all online services from shops to news sites.
Multiple devices: As the number of different IT devices continues to grow, there are more and more devices in use at the same time.
Situations and tasks that utilize and use multiple devices together have become commonplace. We need to think how how user interfaces could better support multi-device sharing.
Artificial intelligence: It seems that AI Market Ramps Everywhere. The AI term creates hope for some, fear for others, and confusion for all. Artificial intelligence (AI) is what the Internet of Things was two years ago – overhyped and not very well understood. The obvious shift is the infusion of AI (and its subcategories, machine learning and deep learning) into different markets. It seems that you don’t need to be artificial intelligence wizard anymore to use some AI – at best, implementation can be picked up by GitHub without really understanding anything. AI Still Has Trust Issues for many. There are also views that now hot artificial intelligence is the bubble that broke out last in the 1990s because at present, artificial intelligence and man form a bad cyborg. You need to separate AI Hype From Reality because it seems to be a miraculous thing where almost nobody knows what it is.
AI chips: While GPUs are well-positioned in machine learning, data type flexibility and power efficiency are making FPGAs increasingly attractive. Today, selling custom chips for artificial intelligence is still a small business. Intel, the largest manufacturer of computer processors, has appraised the current market at $2.5 billion, one half of one percent of the estimated value of the 2018 global semiconductor market. At a press event at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show, Intel announced the Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP-I), an AI chip for inference-based workloads that fits into a GPU-like form factor. Google and NXP advance artificial intelligence with the Edge TPU.
AI-driven development: AI-driven development looks at tools, technologies and best practices for embedding AI into applications and using AI to create AI-powered tools for the development process.
Huge data: It seems that It’s All About The Data. Data creation, management and processing always have been a winning business formula. It takes lots of data to train AI systems and IoT systems generate a lot of data.Data scientists now have increasing amounts of data to prepare, analyze and group — and from which to draw conclusions. The entire tech industry has changed in several fundamental ways over the past year due to the massive growth in data. Many data science tasks will be automated. Hardware and software are no longer the starting points for technology design. It’s now about data processing, flow and throughput.
Digital twins: A digital twin is a digital representation that mirrors a real-life object, process or system. Digital twins can also be linked to create twins of larger systems, such as a power plant or city. The idea of a digital twin is not new but is has become hot when AI and IoT were added to the mix.
Power consumption: Globally, ICT today consumes 8% of all electricity and doubles every year. I think we needs new semiconductor technologies and maybe also more optimized software that does more but consumes less power.
Memories: DRAM market growth stops in 2019. GDDR6 and HBM2 impacts system design. There is disparity between the different types of DRAM, from GDDR to HBM.
Faster storage: Apacer has CFexpress card, which supports PCIe and the new NVMe 1.3 protocol, transfers data at a rate of two gigabytes per second.
Heterogeneous architectures: Need for increased computing power requires new multi-processor architectures (hybrid processors). Heterogeneous design is changing the starting point for chip design so that integration is now more the real challenge rather than the processor core. Many ARM processors already use hybrid architecture. Intel has unveiled a new Foveros architecture that addresses the challenge of Arm processors.
Immersive technologies: Users can interact with the world with immersive technologies such as augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR) and virtual reality (VR). AR brings new possibilities. A smart space is a physical or digital environment in which humans and technology-enabled systems interact in increasingly open, connected, coordinated and intelligent ecosystems.
Open hardware: Can RISC-V – Linux of Microprocessors – Start an Open Hardware Renaissance? RISC-V is an open source processor command set that can be used with the same principles as Linux code. RISCV is now being firmly linked to Linux as the Linux Foundation and the RISC-V Foundation have agreed to work together to promote open code development and RISC-V deployment. For the first time, Arm architecture will be a serious challenger in millions, even billions of embedded devices. Companies like Hi-Five, NVIDIA and WDplan to release product with RISC-V in them. This year RISC-V does not compete with traditional CPUs on PCs. Also MIPS hardware architecture is opening up.
Containers: Is Kubernetes the new application server? If you thought there was a lot of chatter about Kubernetes in 2018, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Software robotics: Software robotics becomes widely available. Robot Framework will be important on this.
Intel processors: Intel Announces Faster Processors Patched for Meltdown and Spectre, New Intel Architectures and Technologies Target Expanded Market Opportunities. Intel Demonstrates 10nm-based PCs, Data Center and Networking Systems, Next-Gen ‘Sunny Cove’ Architecture with AI and Crypto Acceleration, and 3D Logic Chip Packaging Technology. 5 Observations From Intel’s Event article says that mysterious locations, codenames and process delays are on the top of the list. Intel’s Foveros Lakefield technology for making smaller chips.
AMD processors: Ryzen mobile processors would begin showing up in ultrathin and gaming laptops by the end of the first quarter. AMD starts to use 7nm technology: Radeon VII GPU will be available and it is promised to be 27% to 62% faster, third-generation Ryzen desktop processor and second-generation EPYC server processor will be available starting later this year. AMD is challenging Intel in Chromebooks with A-Series CPUs and launching Ryzen Mobile 3000-Series chips with 2nd-generation Ryzen Mobile parts.
ARM processors: Taking aim at Intel, Qualcomm launches chip for business PCs. The Snapdragon 8cx series is Qualcomm’s first chip specifically designed for computers. Qualcomm’s pitch is that laptops using its chips will go days without needing to be plugged in, and will always be connected to the internet via cellular networks. The Snapdragon 8cx is also the world’s first 7-nanometer PC processor platform and promises superior performance for laptop. Intel’s position on laptops is very strong and Qualcomm has a big hill to get up if it really wants to challenge Intel’s PC side. Huawei Rolls 7nm ARM Server CPU Kunpeng 920 that is said to outperform ThunderX2, Ampere by 25%. Rumors are circulating that Apple will obsolete x86-based computers in favor of its own SoC-powered successors.
NVIDIA: RTX 2060 GPU was introduced. GeForce RTX™ graphics cards are powered by the Turing GPU architecture and the all-new RTX platform. This promises to give you up to 6X the performance of previous-generation graphics cards and brings the power of real-time ray tracing and AI to your favorite games. GeForce RTX 20 Series GPUs to gaming laptops.
Microsoft hardware: Microsoft reportedly working on Xbox and Windows webcams for 2019.
Windows security: Microsoft officially announces ‘Windows Sandbox’ for running applications in isolation.Microsoft’s coming ‘Windows Sandbox’ feature is a lightweight virtual machine that allow users to run potentially suspicious software in isolation. It could debut in Windows 10 19H1,
Storage: NVMe Hits a Tipping Point. A show dedicated to NVM Express (NVMe) next month solidifies an industry-wide sentiment that the host controller interface and storage protocol hit a tipping point in the last year. It is expected that we’re going to see the majority of new products coming out with NVMe. There are already relatively young NVM Express Over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) specification and even some hard disk enclosures using NVMe.
Fibre channel: Broadcom Nudges Fibre Channel to 64G using 64G optical modules (just starting to sample) and PCIe Gen 4 connections that are not yet generally available on x86 servers.
Faster PCIe:PCIe 4.0 is ready. The PCISIG organization has completed the new 4.0 version of the PCIe bus, and now the technology is expected to be deployed on the devices. It is possible to to get the full PCIe 4.0 speed with both copper and fiber. It seems that this year PCIe 4.0 comes to wider us for x86 servers.
FPGA: FPGA Graduates To First-Tier Status because FPGAs are better for certain types of computation than CPUs or GPUs.While GPUs are well-positioned in machine learning, data type flexibility and power efficiency are making FPGAs increasingly attractive.
Enterprise software:Legacy enterprise applications and software systems have a reputation for being clunky, expensive, and almost impossible to keep up to date. Rethink your enterprise software systems and consider whether cloud-based options like SaaS may better serve your needs. Office 365 is massively successful. AWS services are running the backend of thousands of major companies now. As internet connections and speeds increase, the cloud becomes more and more viable as it is more cost effective to centralize computer hardware reducing costs for companies and employee overhead.
Windows 10: Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10. Microsoft could be preparing to ditch the EdgeHTML layout engine of its unloved Edge browser in Windows 10 in favour of Chromium. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is improved. Microsoft new Windows 10 reserves ~7GB of disk space for updates, apps, and more to ensure critical OS functions always have space.
Light Windows: Microsoft is working on Windows Lite, a super lightweight, instant on, always connected OS that runs only PWAs and UWP apps, to challenge Chrome OS. Microsoft’s ‘Centaurus’ device is yet another potential piece of its Chromebook-compete strategy.
Coding for Windows: Microsoft has released a public preview of Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac. Microsoft open sources its most popular Windows UX frameworks and says the first preview of .NET Core 3.0 is now available — Microsoft is open sourcing WPF, Windows Forms and Win UI via GitHub.
Quantum computing: Quantum computing is a type of nonclassical computing that is based on the quantum state of subatomic particles that represent information as elements denoted as quantum bits or “qubits.” Quantum computers are an exponentially scalable and highly parallel computing model. They can work well on some specific tasks suitable for them, but are not suitable for most generic computing tasks we are used to.
Blockchain: Blockchain is a type of distributed ledger, an expanding chronologically ordered list of cryptographically signed, irrevocable transactional records shared by all participants in a network. It can work with untrusted parties without the need for a centralized party (i.e., a bank). Businesses should begin evaluating the technology to see if it fits their business or not. You need to separate Blockchain hype from Reality because it seems to be a potentially miraculous thing where almost nobody knows exactly what it is to what it is good for. Check this related Dilbert comic.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
2019 Will Be the Year of Open Source
https://www.designnews.com/electronics-test/2019-will-be-year-open-source/174144007660005?ADTRK=UBM&elq_mid=7086&elq_cid=876648
From software and even hardware, we saw more activity in open source than ever before in 2018. And the momentum isn’t likely to slow down in 2019.
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Digital transformation reality check: 10 trends
https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2018/12/digital-transformation-reality-check-10-trends?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY
2019 is the year when CIOs scrutinize investments, work even more closely with the CEO, and look to AI to shape strategy. What other trends will prove key?
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Nintendo Makes It Clear that Piracy Is the Only Way to Preserve Video Game History
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjm5kw/nintendo-makes-it-clear-that-piracy-is-the-only-way-to-preserve-video-game-history?utm_source=mbfb
By shutting down the Wii Store Channel and not letting users download old games, Nintendo is once again showing that in the modern digital era, you don’t actually own the things you buy.
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The “Invisible Hand” of Piracy: An Economic Analysis of the Information-Goods Supply Chain
https://misq.org/the-invisible-hand-of-piracy-an-economic-analysis-of-the-information-goods-supply-chain.html?SID=2f4p43qg6r114qegp4ia58gtr4
In this paper, we study the economic impact of piracy on the supply chain of information goods. When information goods are sold to consumers via a retailer, in certain situations, a moderate level of piracy seems to have a surprising positive impact on the profits of the manufacturer and the retailer while, at the same time, enhancing consumer welfare. Such a “win–win–win” situation is not only good for the supply chain, but is also beneficial for the overall economy.
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Browsing the web in 2019. Via https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/1090589206013976576?s=21
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Larry Dignan / ZDNet:
AMD reports Q4 revenue of $1.42B, up 6% YoY but missing analyst estimates of $1.44B, and net income of $38M; stock up 8%+ after hours
AMD cuts Q1 outlook amid lower graphic processor demand
https://www.zdnet.com/article/amd-cuts-q1-outlook-amid-lower-graphic-processor-demand/
The company’s weak outlook comes after Nvidia said it was seeing softer sales. AMD said inventory and the end of the blockchain boom were issues.
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Microsoft Issues Windows 10 Upgrade Warning
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2019/01/26/microsoft-windows-10-upgrade-storage-space-problem-price-cost/#511183ec2f02
The problems associated with Windows 10’s most controversial feature are well known, but now Microsoft has warned users it will soon be consuming more of your computer’s resources to enforce it…
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Software Development Trends for 2019
https://polcode.com/blog/software-development-trends-for-2019/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook
Every year brings us a fresh batch of software development trends. 2019, in many ways, will be an expansion of existing technological solutions. Let’s take a look at the IT offerings of the upcoming new year.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Q2: revenue of $32.5B, up 12% YoY; Productivity and Business Processes revenue of $10.1B, up 13% YoY; Intelligent Cloud revenue of $9.4B, up 20% YoY
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2019-Q2/press-release-webcast
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Europe’s HPC Community Sets Vision for Embedded Systems
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334260
The European Network on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC) presented a strategy for Europe to remain competitive in addressing next generation embedded systems as part of its Vision 2019 report at its 14th conference on the future of computing last week in Valencia, Spain.
With most European semiconductor manufacturers not going into sub-10nm technology, Europe has an opportunity to exploit more mature technology nodes while continuing to research post-CMOS technologies and alternative, non-von Neumann architectures to address higher performance and efficiency as computing becomes ever more pervasive in all aspects of society, especially with the growth of machine learning and artificial intelligence, according to the report.
The HiPEAC Vision 2019 report says the end of computing as we know it represents an opportunity for Europe to steer the development of future systems that would respect the planet and humanity.
https://www.hipeac.net/vision/
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Synopsys’ Taylor Armerding takes a look at what the next year holds for open source, from changes in license terms to the impact of GDPR and a broader coalition dealing with security issues.
The future of open source software: More of everything
Posted by Taylor Armerding on January 24, 2019
https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/future-of-open-source-predictions/
The past decade charts the reach of open source into every industry. But what does the future of open source hold? Here are some open source predictions.
More mergers and acquisitions following on the megadeals of IBM buying Red Hat and Microsoft buying GitHub. More organizations using more of it. More vulnerabilities, corresponding with more efforts by hackers to take advantage of those vulnerabilities. More licensing squabbles and lawsuits. More Linux everywhere, present in the cloud, the IoT, AI, big data, DevOps and blockchain.
Indeed, the 2018 Synopsys OSSRA (Open Source Security and Risk Analysis) report found that of more than 1,100 codebases audited, 77% of IoT codebases had open source components with an average of 677 vulnerabilities per application. Of all the codebases scanned, 74% had open source components with license conflicts.
From a governance perspective, 2018 was the year of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).
Future of open source in democracy
On our end, we recently became an open source voting machine manufacturer—at least for a little bit. We are incubating VotingWorks, which aims to be a completely open source—software, hardware, docs via CC—voting systems manufacturer. This is similar to Los Angeles County’s VSAP (Voting Systems for All People) project, which has already produced a voting machine and intends to make it completely open.
More industries, better compliance, but mixed maturity
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Do Data Scientists Need Certification?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/do-data-scientists-need-certification
But while a lot of companies want to hire data scientists, there is little agreement about what a data scientist actually is.
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Mayhem, the Machine That Finds Software Vulnerabilities, Then Patches Them
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/mayhem-the-machine-that-finds-software-vulnerabilities-then-patches-them
Back in 2011, when the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen said that “software is eating the world,” it was still a fresh idea. Now it’s obvious that software permeates our lives. From complex electronics like medical devices and autonomous vehicles to simple objects like Internet-connected lightbulbs and thermometers, we’re surrounded by software.
And that means we’re all more exposed to attacks on that software than ever before.
Every year, 111 billion lines are added to the mass of software code in existence, and every line presents a potential new target.
research firm Cybersecurity Ventures, predicts that system break-ins made through a previously unknown weakness—what the industry calls “zero-day exploits”—will average one per day in the United States by 2021, up from one per week in 2015.
The cybersecurity battleground is populated by hackers who are technically skilled and, at the highest levels, creative in exploiting weaknesses in software to penetrate an organization’s defenses.
Our research at CMU had begun with a simple premise: People need a way to check the software they’re buying and ensure that it’s safe. Coders will, of course, make a due-diligence effort to flush out security flaws, but their main concerns are always more basic: They have to ship their product on time and ensure that it does what it’s supposed to do. The problem is that hackers will find ways to make the software do things it’s not supposed to do.
Today’s state of the art for software security involves using special tools to review the source code and to flag potential security weaknesses. Because that process produces a lot of false positives—flagging things that in fact are not weaknesses—a human being must then go through and check every case.
The system we entered in the competition, Mayhem, automated what white-hat hackers do. It not only pointed to possible weaknesses, it exploited them, thus proving conclusively that they were in fact weaknesses.
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EVALUATING TECHNOLOGIES – WHEN TO JUMP ABOARD AND WHEN TO IGNORE
https://blog.taiste.fi/en/evaluating-technologies-when-to-jump-aboard-and-when-to-ignore?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=promotedpost&utm_campaign=website&utm_content=teknologiavalinnat
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WHAT MAKES A GOOD TECHNOLOGY CHOICE?
You should understand how the technology works, so avoid any “black box” or “magic” type of solutions. You should (in theory) be able to build a toy version of it yourself.
It should be easy to explain the basic features it provides in a few short sentences.
…but from those sentences, something very deep and profound should follow.
Maybe you should even be able to understand the main parts of the implementation yourself.
The speed in which new features for the technology are introduced should not be super fast: it’s always a good sign if it evolves gradually with a certain clear vision in mind.
https://blog.taiste.fi/en/evaluating-technologies-when-to-jump-aboard-and-when-to-ignore?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=promotedpost&utm_campaign=website&utm_content=teknologiavalinnat
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What drives retention
https://www.raphkoster.com/2019/01/30/what-drives-retention/
For better or worse, much of the games market is moving to games-as-a-service. Once upon a time, this was known as the MMO business model, because all MMOs were games-as-a-service, and virtually nothing else was.
GaaS is a business strategy, and F2P is a revenue model.
In the past we’ve seen services of all sorts drive revenue in lots of ways:
free sampling to get you in the door, supported by other revenue streams such as other paying members subsidizing free users, or advertising
a la carte offerings which let you dip into a service without an ongoing commitment
periodic upgrade offers to take you from that free tier to something with recurring payments
subscription tiers — a low basic offering and a few richer ones catered to specific demos, which retain the ability to a la carte for specific features
individual one off upsells for special events that are never covered by the sub tier
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Comparing 3 open source databases: PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and SQLite
https://opensource.com/article/19/1/open-source-databases?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY
Find out how to choose the best open source database for your needs.
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Agile vs. DevOps: What’s the difference?
https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2019/1/agile-vs-devops-whats-difference?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY
Agile and DevOps have a shared past. That leads to some lingering misunderstandings about the terms
“DevOps is a natural extension of Agile,” says Melanie Achard, DevOps SME at SolarWinds. “Some say DevOps ‘began’ when teams started extending Agile principles to the infrastructure, and more specifically, to systems administration.”
Indeed, Agile and DevOps have a shared past. That leads to some lingering misunderstandings about the terms.
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Here’s how she outlines their common traits:
Agile:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
DevOps:
Holistic
Collaborative
Automated
Continual feedback loop – Build, test, release, monitor, plan
Source: https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2019/1/agile-vs-devops-whats-difference?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY
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How open-source software took over the world
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/12/how-open-source-software-took-over-the-world/
It was just five years ago that there was an ample dose of skepticism from investors about the viability of open source as a business model. The common thesis was that Red Hat was a snowflake and that no other open-source company would be significant in the software universe.
Fast-forward to today and we’ve witnessed the growing excitement in the space: Red Hat is being acquired by IBM for $32 billion (3x times its market cap from 2014); MuleSoft was acquired after going public for $6.5 billion; MongoDB is now worth north of $4 billion; Elastic’s IPO now values the company at $6 billion; and, through the merger of Cloudera and Hortonworks, a new company with a market cap north of $4 billion will emerge. In addition, there’s a growing cohort of impressive OSS companies working their way through the growth stages of their evolution: Confluent, HashiCorp, DataBricks, Kong, Cockroach Labs and many others.
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What is Small Scale Scrum?
https://opensource.com/article/19/1/what-small-scale-scrum?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY
Here’s how the scrum agile methodology can help teams of three or fewer work more efficiently.
Agile is fast becoming a mainstream way industries act, behave, and work as they look to improve efficiency, minimize costs, and empower staff. Most software developers naturally think, act, and work this way, and alignment towards agile software methodologies has gathered pace in recent years.
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Get started with WTF, a dashboard for the terminal
https://opensource.com/article/19/1/wtf-information-dashboard?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY
Keep key information in view with WTF, the sixth in our series on open source tools that will make you more productive in 2019.
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Monitoring application performance with Performance Co-Pilot
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/monitoring-application-performance-performance-co-pilot?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY
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Governance without rules: How the potential for forking helps projects
https://opensource.com/article/19/1/forking-good?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY
Although forking is undesirable, the potential for forking provides a discipline that drives people to find a way forward that works for everyone.
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19 days of productivity in 2019: The fails
https://opensource.com/article/19/1/productivity-tool-wish-list?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY
Here are some tools the open source world doesn’t do as well as it could.
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Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Microsoft will announce Xbox Live SDK, which will enable cross-platform play on iOS, Android, Switch, Xbox, and Windows PCs, at GDC 2019
Microsoft wants to bring Xbox Live cross-platform gaming to Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, and more
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-wants-bring-xbox-live-cross-platform-gaming-android-ios-nintendo-switch-and-more
Microsoft has made no secrets about its cross-platform ambitions, and it’s about to turn up the heat.
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End of Intel Itanium has come
Intelin Itanium tuli tiensä päähän
http://www.etn.fi/index.php/13-news/9037-intelin-itanium-tuli-tiensa-paahan
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SAP job cuts prove harsh realities of enterprise transformation
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/sap-job-cuts-prove-harsh-realities-of-enterprise-transformation/?sr_share=facebook&utm_source=tcfbpage
As traditional enterprise companies like IBM, Oracle and SAP try to transform into more modern cloud companies, they are finding that making that transition, while absolutely necessary, could require difficult adjustments along the way. Just this morning, SAP announced that it was restructuring in order to save between €750 million and €800 million (between approximately $856 million and $914 million).
it could involve up to 4,000 job cuts as SAP shifts into more modern technologies. “We are going to move our people and our focus to the areas where the new economy needs SAP the most: artificial intelligence, deep machine learning, IoT, blockchain and quantum computing,” CEO Bill McDermott told a post-earnings press conference.
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Top 10 FOSS legal developments of 2018
https://opensource.com/article/19/2/top-foss-legal-developments?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY
Legal issues from the past year will influence free and open source software in 2019 and beyond.
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Täyttä USB-vauhtia jopa 50 metriä
http://www.etn.fi/index.php/13-news/9044-taytta-usb-vauhtia-jopa-50-metria
Kyse on ensimmäisestä plug-and-play -tyyppisestä 50-metrisestä USB-kaapelista, joka tukee sekä 10 gigabitin USB 3.1 Gen 2 että vanhoja USB 2.0 -yhteyksiä. Kaapeli on lisäksi suojattu EMI- ja RF-häiriöiltä niin, että se sopii myös lääketieteellisten laitteiden liitäntäratkaisuksi.
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Jeremy Burge / Emojipedia:
Unicode Consortium finalizes its emoji list for 2019, including 230 new emojis like “yawning face” and “pinching hand”, likely coming to major platforms soon — The final emoji list for 2019 has now been approved by the Unicode Consortium and includes a total of 230 …
230 New Emojis in Final List for 2019
https://blog.emojipedia.org/230-new-emojis-in-final-list-for-2019/
The final emoji list for 2019 has now been approved by the Unicode Consortium and includes a total of 230 new emojis coming to major platforms this year.
Additions include previously drafted candidates such as a Flamingo, Otter, and Guide Dog, as well as a Waffle, Hindu Temple, Sari, Sloth, and Mate.
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Open Source in M&A Due Diligence
Evaluating open source content in software assets in M&A due diligence
https://www.synopsys.com/software-integrity/resources/white-papers/evaluate-open-source-due-diligence.html
Most companies involved with technology M&A understand the danger of open source risks in software. Today’s software contains significant amounts of open source—on average more than 50%, according to a 2018 Synopsys report.
There are several ways to assess and manage open source risk in a transaction, with some more effective than others. Similarly, there are several approaches to open source due diligence and varying degrees of depth of analysis.
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Open Source in M&A Due Diligence
https://semiengineering.com/open-source-in-ma-due-diligence/
Evaluating open source content in software assets in M&A due diligence
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Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Microsoft joins Google, Facebook, and Arm as a member of the OpenChain Project, which aims to standardize open-source software licensing — Microsoft Corp. wants to support more standardization of open-source software licensing, so today it’s putting its weight behind the OpenChain Project as its latest platinum member.
Microsoft joins the OpenChain Project to push open-source software licensing standards
https://siliconangle.com/2019/02/06/microsoft-joins-openchain-project-create-common-standards-around-open-source-software-licensing/
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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft says Build 2019 will take place from May 6 to May 8, with registration opening on February 27
Microsoft Build 2019: It’s back in Seattle from May 6 to 8
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-build-2019-its-back-in-seattle-from-may-6-to-8/
Registration for this year’s Microsoft Build developers conference opens February 27. And Build, again, is going head-to-head with Google’s I/O developer confab.
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Microsoft rolls out healthcare bot service, new health-record integration feature
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-rolls-out-healthcare-bot-service-new-health-record-integration-feature/
Microsoft is continuing to focus heavily on the healthcare vertical with new healthcare-related bot service, records-integration and healthcare-worker-targeted Teams capabilities.
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How much will staying patched on Windows 7 cost you? Here’s the price list
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-much-will-staying-patched-on-windows-7-cost-you-heres-the-price-list/
Large businesses not ready to migrate off Windows 7 as of January 2020 and which opt for paid security updates should expect Microsoft’s update pricing to double each year.
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Testing the Linux virtual machine on Chrome OS
https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/brians-brain/4461471/Testing-the-Linux-virtual-machine-on-Chrome-OS
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After 5 years, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has transformed more than the stock price
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/04/after-5-years-microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-has-transformed-more-than-the-stock-price/?sr_share=facebook&utm_source=tcfbpage
Five years ago today, Satya Nadella took over as CEO at Microsoft, and by most any measure has been wildly successful. It’s common to look at the stock price as the defining metric of Nadella’s tenure, but the stock price triumph has followed something more fundamental and harder to measure: how he changed the culture of the entire organization.
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Big companies are not becoming data-driven fast enough
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/big-companies-are-not-becoming-data-driven-fast-enough/?sr_share=facebook&utm_source=tcfbpage
McAfee was fond of saying that before the data deluge we have today, the way most large organizations made decisions was via the HiPPO — the highest paid person’s opinion. Then he would chide the audience that this was not the proper way to run your business. Data, not gut feelings, even those based on experience, should drive important organizational decisions.
While companies haven’t failed to recognize McAfee’s advice, the NVP report suggests they are having problems implementing data-driven decision making across organizations. There are plenty of technological solutions out there today to help them, from startups all the way to the largest enterprise vendors, but the data (see, you always need to go back to the data) suggests that it’s not a technology problem, it’s a people problem.
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5 tips for IT pros who want a side hustle
https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2019/1/5-tips-it-pros-who-want-side-hustle?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY
A side hustle could give you extra cash – and maybe even updated tech skills. Here’s how to avoid pitfalls and get the most from a side gig
As the gig economy has grown, so too have the opportunities to more easily make supplemental income outside the full-time work environment. Some 78 million people earned money from a so-called side hustle in 2017, according to a survey conducted by the Federal Reserve. For IT professionals, in particular, such extracurricular work can also be potentially lucrative learning opportunities or launch pads for new careers or businesses.
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4 steps to becoming an awesome agile developer
https://opensource.com/article/19/2/steps-agile-developer?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY
There’s no magical way to do it, but these practices will put you well on your way to embracing agile in application development, testing, and debugging.
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Microsoft really, really, really doesn’t want you to buy Office 2019
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/microsoft-really-really-really-doesnt-want-you-to-buy-office-2019/?utm_source=tcfbpage&sr_share=facebook
Microsoft launched a new ad campaign for its Office suite today. Usually, that’s not something especially interesting, but this one is a bit different. Instead of simply highlighting the features of Word and Excel, Microsoft decided to pitch Office 365 and Office 2019 against each other (as an extra gimmick, it used twins to do so, too). But here’s the deal: Microsoft really doesn’t want you to buy Office 2019, and the ads make that abundantly clear.
Subscriptions are a better business for Microsoft in the long run (hence its recent focus on products like Microsoft 365, too).
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https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-IT-Pro-Blog/The-perils-of-using-Internet-Explorer-as-your-default-browser/ba-p/331732
Tomi Engdahl says:
Software-defined storage (SDS): Moving beyond infrastructure to kubernetes and spanning hybrid clouds
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Eclipse Che 7 is Coming and It’s Really Hot (4/4)
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/12/21/eclipse-che-7-is-coming-and-its-really-hot-4-4/?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY
Eclipse Che 7 is an enterprise-grade IDE that is designed to solve many of the challenges faced by enterprise development teams. In my previous articles
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System Beeps Is an MS-DOS Program and Album for Your Motherboard Speaker
https://blog.hackster.io/system-beeps-is-an-ms-dos-program-and-album-for-your-motherboard-speaker-22803f7d2e6b
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IBM brings Watson to any cloud
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/12/ibm-brings-watson-to-any-cloud/?sr_share=facebook&utm_source=tcfbpage
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Agile at scale — why it is so hot right now
https://favrohub.com/agile-at-scale-why-it-is-so-hot-right-now-a47c3697c222
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Google Docs gets an API for task automation
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/google-docs-gets-an-api-for-task-automation/?sr_share=facebook&utm_source=tcfbpage