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2 weeks ago | sdtimes.com | Adam Lieberman

As businesses continue to experiment with AI-powered technologies, it’s likely that the most common use case across industries is one that essentially pre-dates the explosion of interest in generative AI, which is that of the humble chatbot. Anyone who has visited a business website over the last decade will have encountered a chatbot, particularly when the nature of engagement relates to customer services.

2 weeks ago | sdtimes.com | David Rubinstein

Red Hat today at its Summit event announced Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite, which the company said was designed to make developers more productive and their applications more secure. The Advanced Developer Suite includes Red Hat Developer Hub, an internal developer portal (IDP) built on the Cloud Native Computing Foundation project Backstage. The Developer Hub has software templates for AI scenarios ready for deployment on OpenShift AI, the company wrote in its announcement.

2 weeks ago | sdtimes.com | David Rubinstein

Following in the steps of other software providers looking to protect their intellectual property, flexible installer company InstallAware today announced it has published the source code for InstallAware 2025 under a Business Source License. In recent months, there has been a lot of discussion within the industry as to what constitutes open source, and if companies that use licenses outside of what has been certified by the Open Source Initiative can be considered open source.

3 weeks ago | sdtimes.com | David Rubinstein

As AI can write so many more lines of code more quickly than humans, the need for code review that keeps pace with development is now an urgent necessity. A recent survey by SmartBear – whose early founder, Jason Cohen, literally wrote the book on peer code review – found that the average developer can review 400 lines of code in a day, checking to see if the code is meeting requirements and functions as it’s supposed to.

1 month ago | sdtimes.com | David Rubinstein

Over the past year or so, the industry has seen several open-source projects forked because the founders of those projects changed their licenses in moves they say were to protect their intellectual property. Redis switched from the open BSD license to the more restrictive Redis Source Available License v2 and the Server Side Public License after seeing Microsoft adopt and benefit from Redis’ work without what Redis said was enough support for the community and to Redis itself.