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Microsoft ships Java 21 builds
Microsoft made Microsoft Build for OpenJDK 21 binaries available for free download and announced that JDK 21 will soon be available in Azure PaaS services.
Oracle CloudWorld 2023: 6 key takeaways from the big annual event
Generative AI was the watchword at CloudWorld 2023, as Oracle rolled out a new API-led AI service and updates to Database 23c, MySQL HeatWave, Fusion Cloud applications, and other products.
Oracle unveils GraalOS for serverless Java
GraalOS builds on GraalVM Native Image and promises minimal cold start, transparent suspend and resume, and no-cost idle.
Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs come to Oracle Cloud
Oracle Cloud now offers bare-metal instances with Nvidia H100 GPUs for AI training and inference and high-performance computing applications. Nvidia L40S GPUs are on the way.
Generative AI most important technology ever, Oracle’s Ellison says
Generative AI fundamentally changes how apps will be built and run at Oracle, the company’s CTO and co-founder said.
Oracle’s MySQL HeatWave gets Vector Store, generative AI features
The new generative AI capabilities and the Vector Store are currently in private preview.
How Microsoft uses walkthroughs to guide open source development
Often the hardest part of contributing to an open source project is learning where to start. Microsoft has a cure for that.
A new way of thinking about open source sustainability
Go beyond paying developers to maintain the software your business depends on. Pay the companies that pay the developers and watch the whole ecosystem thrive.
IBM unveils generative AI foundation models
IBM Granite series foundation models apply generative AI to natural language and coding tasks. Plus, Watsonx generative AI capabilities are coming to the Watsonx data lakehouse.
Building collaborative apps with Microsoft Loop components
Adaptive Card-based Loop components are live and portable chunks of functionality that you can embed in Outlook, Teams, business apps, and your own code. Here’s how to get started.
Generative AI may displace traditional cloud development
With the explosion of interest (and money) in generative AI, what will be left for traditional cloud service development and enhancement that companies need?
IBM Watsonx to use generative AI to translate COBOL code into Java
The product is targeted at modernizing mainframe applications that run on IBM Z systems, as the number of COBOL developers starts to dwindle.
Follow the cloud money
Led by CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE, the new Open Enterprise Linux Association is likely to fail without at least one major cloud vendor on board.
Building LLM applications with vector search in Azure Cognitive Services
Microsoft’s Cognitive Search API now offers vector search as a service, ready for use with large language models in Azure OpenAI and beyond.
Google launches Pricing API to help enterprises optimize cloud costs
Pricing API will provide an inventory of public services and SKUs along with account-specific custom prices and discounts with additional metadata, down to the SKU level.
Suse, Oracle, CIQ join forces to fuel RHEL-compatible Linux distros
The Open Enterprise Linux Association will provide the source code needed to create downstream distributions compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the companies announced.
Low code AI with Power Apps and Power Automate
Microsoft's AI Builder introduces low-code generative AI capabilities to Power Apps and Power Automate. Let's see how the preview features stack up.
