Posted May 6th, 2021 for Percona
Raleigh, NC – May 6, 2021 – Enterprises have a deep appreciation for the value of open source software with 100% of the information technology (IT) decision-makers in a recent survey saying that “using open source provides benefits for their organization.” The survey of 200 IT decision-makers was conducted over the past month by Vanson Bourne and sponsored by Percona , a leader in open source database software and services. Over the past disruptive 12 months, use of open source software was reported as increasing by 79% of respondents. The survey comes ahead of the annual Percona Live ONLINE Open Source Database Conference 2021 and was commissioned to understand the business perspective of open source software. Of the 200 respondents, 25% were from medium-size enterprises of 500-999 employees and 75% were from large enterprises with more than 1,000 employees. They came from a cross-section of industries and had knowledge of ope
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There are an ever increasing number of developments being made
on the Ethereum blockchain. Those closely following these
developments may be aware of Uniswap s announcement about its
upcoming release of its V3 protocol on the Ethereum mainnet in
May.
Uniswap is a DEX or decentralized exchange application for
cryptocurrencies and tokens. Like most decentralized financial
(DeFi) protocols, Uniswap runs on fully open-source software which
utilize smart contracts on Ethereum s blockchain. Being
decentralized, Uniswap protocols are voted on by users of the
platform, and governance is controlled by UNI token holders.
Upstart hopes to do for transactional databases what Snowflake did for data warehousing
Lindsay Clark Tue 12 Jan 2021 // 15:15 UTC Share
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Even database companies you ve never heard of might be worth a billion or two. Take Cockroach Labs, the firm behind the distributed RDMS CockroachDB, for example, which has hit gold in a $160m funding round.
With backers including Greenoaks and Lone Pine, and existing investors Benchmark, BOND, FirstMark, GV, Index Ventures, and Tiger Global, the round takes total investment to date to $355m as the startup tries to do for transactional databases what Snowflake has done for data warehouse systems.