Oracle Magazine, Jan/Feb 2018
ORACLE MAGAZINE JANUARY FEBRUARY 2018 31 T he technologies of tomorrow have the potential to change the world for the better whether its via planet scale apps scheduled with Kubernetes Federation or blockchain based trust with Hyperledger These two examples are both enabled by open source software OSS but OSS is only one facet of Oracles commitment to being open When we say Oracle is open we dont just mean open source We mean that we support non Oracle technologies as well as the ability to work in an ecosystem that is broader than Oracle We definitely believe that says Amit Zavery senior vice president for Oracle Cloud Platform Zavery describes a vision for Oracle that includes open source tools databases platforms and languages managed services to make OSS more intuitive to use and open collaboration innovation and interoperability Were taking important open source innovations and providing automation management and enterprise grade capabilities around them Zavery says pointing to Oracle Cloud services for managing a plethora of OSS technologies including Kubernetes such as Global Multi Cluster Management Fn Hadoop Spark Kafka the Cassandra NoSQL database by way of Oracle Data Hub Cloud Service TensorFlow and Caffe via Oracle Artificial Intelligence Platform Cloud Service to name just a few More OSS Than Ever Before With each year OSS expands in importance Developers have gained ground too Today their status has risen from that of hidden minions to that of visible makers in a software bitten world As a result the tech industry has quickly moved from questioning the OSS business model to embracing it There are a lot of areas where we need either more free software or more involvement in existing free software projects says Berlin Germany based computer scientist Lydia Pintscher A free culture enthusiast Pintscher is the product manager for Wikidata and the president of KDE e V a nonprofit supporting free and open end user software Her work she says aims to break through the tendency to lock down technology and make it harder and harder to tinker with Oracle agrees with Pintscher Innovation thrives when technology can be shared and modified The company has delivered mightily
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