Episode Details

This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenSSF’s new project and Tim Bray’s take on Cloud. Plus, some thoughts on data gravity…

Rundown

• Earnings
  • Apple tops earnings expectations on strong iPhone sales
  • Microsoft Azure exceeded $40 billion in annualized revenue
  • Alphabet crushes earnings, announces 20-for-1 stock split
  • Docker makes comeback with over $50M in ARR two years into restructuring
• OSS Security
  • Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)
  • OpenSSF Announces The Alpha-Omega Project to Improve Software Supply Chain Security for 10,000 OSS Projects
• Citrix goes private
• Tim Bray’s take on Cloud

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