A survey of 638 IT professionals finds the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic is, like other slumps, driving increased adoption of open source software. Conducted by Tidelift, a provider of commercial support and maintenance for open source projects, the survey finds 44% of respondents reporting their organizations are now more likely to […]
Survey Sees Surge in Demand for DevOps Skills
The Linux Foundation and edX, a provider of an online learning platform, jointly released an annual report today that for the first time finds organizations are looking for more IT personnel with open source DevOps skills (65%) than developers (59%). Clyde Seepersad, senior vice president and general manager for training and certification at The Linux […]
Google Exposes Old Wounds in Open Source Community
Things boiled over a bit last week with the announcement that Google launched the Open Usage Commons (OUC) consortium (see Mike Vizard’s article here). The announcement and subsequent angst it has caused has upset what had been a pretty stable environment that helped open source software become the dominant force in development and IT. While […]
The Linux Foundation Adds Free Jenkins Training Course
The Linux Foundation, in collaboration with the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), today launched a free introductory course to the open source Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform as part of what it plans will become a series of free and paid online DevOps tools courses. Clyde Seepersad, general manager of training at the Linux Foundation, […]
Divide Narrows Between Open Source Community, Standards Bodies
The path through which open source projects become industry standard is about to become a lot smoother. The Joint Development Foundation (JDF), an arm of The Linux Foundation, this week announced it has been approved to become an official submitter to the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). ISO and IEC […]
LF Edge Moves Open Networking Push Forward
A vendor-neutral initiative dubbed the State of the Edge was acquired this week by LF Edge, an arm of The Linux Foundation focused on defining an open source stack of software for edge computing applications. The State of the Edge project will be merged with the existing Open Glossary of Edge Computing initiative that LF […]
The Linux Foundation Throws Weight Behind Secure Microkernel
The Linux Foundation announced today it will host the seL4 Foundation, the nonprofit organization established by Data61, an arm of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia that has been developing the seL4 microkernel operating system. Gernot Heiser, who will serve as chair of the new foundation, said the seL4 is unique in […]
The Linux Foundation Announces New Open Hardware Technologies and Collaboration
OpenPOWER to become Linux Foundation project to advance development of data-driven architectures required for hybrid cloud environments and increasingly intensive workloads. San Diego, CA – August 21, 2019 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the OpenPOWER Foundation will become a project hosted at The Linux Foundation, […]
The Linux Foundation Launches Continuous Delivery Foundation
The Linux Foundation announced it will provide the home base for a vendor-neutral Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) committed to making it easier to build and reuse DevOps pipelines across multiple continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms. The first projects to be hosted under the auspices of CDF, which was launched at the Open Source Leadership Summit […]