Category: Business & MBA

Business related notes.

  • VMware acquires Bitnami

    Bitnami is a name that many may know from packaged applications available on the major cloud marketplaces. The company packages up applications for easier consumption and adoption, and the concept became quite popular. Today, VMWare announced the acquisition of Bitnami for an undisclosed amount of money.

    VMware announced today that it’s acquiring Bitnami, the package application company that was a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2013 class. The companies didn’t share the purchase price. With Bitnami, the company can now deliver more than 130 popular software packages in a variety of formats, such as Docker containers or virtual machine, an […]

    Source: VMware acquires Bitnami to deliver packaged applications anywhere | TechCrunch

  • Lilium unveils five-seater air taxi

    While Dorothee Bär was made fun of for her statement about Air Taxis in her role as Minister of Digital about one year ago already, Lilium, a German Aerospace startup announced a prototype today.

    Lilium, the Munich-based startup developing an on-demand “air taxi” service, has unveiled a new five-seater prototype and is announcing to the world that a maiden flight for the new device was successfully completed earlier this month. It’s not the first time a Lilium Jet — the company’s all-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) device — […]

    Source: Lilium unveils five-seater air taxi prototype after a successful maiden flight for its latest jet | TechCrunch

  • Supreme Court rules against Apple

    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against Apple on Monday on a case involving whether or not a group of iPhone users will be allowed to bring an antitrust lawsuit against the company regarding its App Store practices. The iPhone owners allege that Apple’s 30 percent commission on App Store sales is passed along to […]

    The supreme court ruling against Apple allows an App Store antitrust case to proceed, possibly having huge impact for customers and the App Store business.

    Source: Supreme Court rules against Apple, allows an App Store antitrust case to proceed | TechCrunch

  • Going all-in on AWS is a recipe for success

    Gousto believes going all-in on AWS is a recipe for success, diginomica writes, and it’s undeniable there is no way around public cloud for digital services & offerings. It’s a pretty steep thesis to build a strategy relying on one particular hyper-scaler to make a business a success. In the end, customers purchase experience and not technology.

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  • GitHub announces Package Registry

    GitHub announces Package Registry

    Your code. Your packages. One login. Meet GitHub Package Registry.
    https://github.co/2vSuFG2

    From the announcement on LinkedIn
    Octocat Package Registry

    The other day wrote this in their post on LinkedIn. Following the link takes one to the newly announced Github Package Registry, that allows developers to host releases for distribution. It’s currently in beta and supports npm, docker images, maven packages, NuGet and Ruby Gems. The corresponding blog article has a few more insights:

    With GitHub Package Registry your packages are at home with their code—sign up for the limited beta to try it out.

    From the blogpost

    While I appreciate the thought and easiness of integration, the announcement doesn’t leave me with a cosy feeling. It’s a bit like GitHub is trying to become the Facebook of code. The Internet is made to work decentralised and the interesting part always has been the freedom of choice. With functionality merging together in one platform, choice gets lost and there is opportunity of misuse.

    In particular, it seems almost forgotten that Github, just like Linkedin, have been acquired by Microsoft in 2016 and 2018. This perspective throws another light on the added functionality and developers may want to evaluate remaining alternatives.

    Source: Introducing GitHub Package Registry – The GitHub Blog

  • SAP and AWS announce IoT interoperability

    Meanwhile, after Microsoft announced their cooperation with SAP in IoT with Leonardo, AWS also announced tighter integration with SAPs business processes.

    High Level Architecture

    via aws.amazon.com/blogs

  • SAP and Microsoft bring IoT data together

    SAP and Microsoft bring IoT data together

    The previously announced cooperation shows first results. Particularly in form of Microsofts announcement of having integrated SAP Leonardo into their Azure IoT Hub.

    Microsoft and SAP Announce to bring IoT and Business Data together

    Source: SAP and Microsoft bring IoT data to the core of the business applications | Blog | Microsoft Azure

  • Windows gets Linux kernel and terminal

    Windows gets Linux kernel and terminal

    Oh Satya, you are spoiling us.

    So, with this announcement you’ll not be able to purchase a regular PC that doesn’t have some *nix on it. Somehow, it’s finally the year of Linux on the Desktop.

    That cold air you feel, that’s hell freezing over.

    Source: Windows 10 gets a legit Linux kernel and a souped-up terminal app

  • google.io 2019

    News Coverage and liveblogs on Google I/O over on TechCrunch, The Verge and Engadget.

    Most noteworthy, Google released a new, more affordable Pixel 3a, updates to Google Assistant, put more emphasis on security upgrades. In other announcements, Nest Hub has been pronounced the new name for Google Home Hub, along with a bigger ‘Max’ edition of the device. There are also announcements on Android 10 Q, which The Verge covered previously

  • Why Do Companies Need All That Personal Data They’re Collecting?

    It’s the Tech perspective, but has the potential for a good debate. Under GDPR it’s not even compliant and still plenty of companies collect all data they can get hold of. Driven by Big Data vendors telling the narrative of Data Lakes, that only require you the data today, should you want to ask any question you don’t know yet in the future.

    Only – have you ever come up with a question that you could not answer based on the data that is already available? Based on data that you collected in a Data Lake?

    Big disclaimer: personally I don’t conclude with the assumptions made in the initial article, but the question is worth thinking about. In particular because most organizations I met until today are not metric driven in first place.

    Source: Ask Slashdot: Why Do Companies Need All That Personal Data They’re Collecting? – Slashdot