Red Hat introduces Free RHEL
When CentOS Linux parent company Red Hat announced that it was shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, CentOS users were not happy. To appease them and to keep the promise it made to Open-Source organizations, Red Hat is introducing a new,...
Bosch and Microsoft partner up on advanced automotive software
Bosch and Microsoft will be working together on a software platform for vehicles. The announcement came on Thursday and is a clear move on the software giant’s part, to get its foot in the door of the growing electromobility and automated driving market.
The software platform will use cloud te...
Dell and SK Telecom are partnering to offer 5G edge connectivity
Dell’s push into 5G and the edge network just got a massive boost after partnering with the Korean telecom provider SK Telecoms. The partnership is with Dell’s VMware and aims to enhance content delivery and app experiences.
The idea is to eliminate the complex network path between devices a...
Canadian VoIP company Sangoma hit by Conti ransomware
Sangoma Technologies, the Canadian VoIP company has been hit by a ransomware attack. The company sells products like Switchbox and FreePBX and owns Asterix provider Digium. It disclosed the attack in a statement, on Christmas Eve and said the ransomware targeted the company’s servers.
The comp...
Cisco acquires IMImobile in a $730-million cash deal
In a cash deal, valued at around $730 million, Cisco has acquired IMImobile, a London-based cloud communications software company. The deal includes debt as well. IMImobile provides services and software for businesses that want to connect interactively with their customers using voice, messaging, ...
Software testing: nobody questions the need, but it’s not done enough
Many companies develop their own software, whether it's a standalone application, an extension to their ERP suite, a mobile app to improve customer experience or something even simpler like the company website. Testing these new applications is done way too little, even though it's vital.
There ...
Infor helps companies modernise with cloud-first ERP
Infor is one of the software vendors firmly committed to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in the cloud. When companies choose for ERP in the cloud, they're also taking a step in modernisation. Therefore, many IT administrators are moving from on-premise to cloud-based or intend to. With cloud-fir...
Amid pandemic, SAP offers financial help for customers
SAP CEO Christian Klein tells Bloomberg that sales weakness is evidence of Cloud transition.
SAP CEO Christian Klein told Bloomberg TV this week that his company has committed to extending customer payment terms and helping partners struggling as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.
His pro...
Juniper Networks buys 128 Technology for $450 million
Juniper Networks announced that it signed a deal to acquire 128 Technology for 450 million dollars. The company has a software platform for enterprise networks.
The deal will wrap up in Juniper’s fourth quarter, ending in late January. 128 Technology was founded in 2014 and provides a software...
The new Windows 10 update might render older drivers incompatible
This week, a cumulative Windows 10 update was released to fix some issues concerning security. However, it may be causing incompatibility issues with some versions of legitimate drivers.
Microsoft's change as part of the KB4579311 is to ensure that the verification standard in Windows 10 for dri...
The Python Software Foundation releases Python 3.9 RC2
The Python Software foundation has released 3.9 RC2 and warns users to look out for deprecation warnings, as they are dropping backwards compatibility for unsupported Python 2.7. Python maintainers stopped support for Python 2.7 in April, five years after it was meant to end.
The cessation of ...
Windows 10 Dev Channel build gets voice typing and clipboard history
Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Dev Channel test build number 20206 on September 2. This new build focuses on input features, with some of them only made available to a small set of testers. Microsoft said that the new build is all about making the dictation in Windows much easier to use.
Th...