Enterprise application adoption often requires tools and services to help organizations move to a digital first approach. That’s one of the driving themes behind Whatfix, which positions itself as a Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) provider. Whatfix has been pushing its…
The open source WordPress content management system (CMS) project issued its final major release of 2019 on Nov. 12 with the launch of WordPress 5.3 codenamed Kirk. As with all recent WordPress releases the codename is a nod to a…
Open source is often at the core of modern enterprise applications and few if any organizations have as much impact as the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The Apache Software Foundation runs its open source projects on a hierarchy of principally…
In recent months, there has been a brewing conflict between large cloud providers (principally Amazon) and various open source enterprise application vendors. The application vendors have argued that Amazon and other large cloud providers are benefiting substantially from open source…
BlueKai, a Cupertino, Calif.-based neighbor of Apple, positions itself as a company that personalizes marketing and advertising for consumers. Oracle added some more substance to its cloud-building initiative Feb. 24 when it revealed it will acquire online data management startup…
MariaDB announced its new Enterprise Server platform on Feb. 26, providing organizations that rely on the database platform with increased quality and security alongside high-end features. Among the new features in MariaDB Enterprise Server are data-at-rest encryption and enhanced data…
Database technology provides a foundational role in modern applications, and one of the emerging database technologies of the last few years has been Redis. Redis in recent months has been the subject of a fair bit of controversy as well,…
The basic premise of open source software is that the software is made available under an open permissive license, as defined by the Open Source Initiative’s Open Source Definition. Open source software doesn’t, however, necessarily mean software that is available…
Ottawa, Canada based Corel Corporation has a diverse portfolio of both consumer and enterprise applications brands, and is now expanding into the remote application and virtualization space. Corel announced on December 20 that it has acquired the Parallels business, which…
In the world of enterprise collaboration apps, few technologies have become as pervasive in recent years as Slack. Slack has its share of competitors, but at least one of them is now bowing out, with Slack announcing that it is…