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NEWS WATCH CollabNet VersionOne, XebiaLabs and Arxan form Digital.ai Following its acquisition of XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne has announced it is forming a new software company. Digital.ai will provide end-toend intelligent value stream management, software delivery and application security. Digital.ai is backed by TPG Capital, and on “a mission to revolutionize how enterprises create, measure, deliver, secure, and continuously improve digital products that provide value, fuel revenue growth, and
enable innovation in today’s rapidly changing world,” according to its announcement.
GitHub free for teams Private repositories with unlimited collaborators are now available to all GitHub accounts, and all of the core GitHub features are available to everyone. “This means teams can now manage their work together in one place: CI/CD, project management, code review, packages, and more. We want everyone to be able to ship great software on the platform developers love,” GitHub wrote in a blog post.
People on the move
n The open-source solution provider Red Hat has announced Paul Cormier is now the company’s president and CEO, effective today. Cormier succeeds Jim Whitehurst, the now president of IBM. IBM acquired Red Hat in July of last year for $34 billion.
n Mitchell Baker has been appointed permanent CEO of Mozilla Corporation. Baker has been the company’s interim CEO since December 2019. The company conducted an external candidate search over the last eight month, but concluded Baker is the right candidate at this time. n Cloud Foundry Foundation announced its CTO Chip Childers is assuming the role of executive director. Childers will replace Abby Kearns, who accepted an executive role elsewhere. “We as a Foundation are turning the page to a new chapter: raising the profiles of our technical contributors, highlighting the community’s accomplishments and redefining the Cloud Foundry platform as the best Kubernetes experience for enterprise developers,” said Childers. n The Apache Software Foundation has announced a new board of directors. The new board includes: • Shane Curcuru (re-elected Director) • Bertrand Delacretaz (former Director) • Roy Fielding (former Director) • Niclas Hedhman (new Director) • Justin Mclean (new Director) • Craig Russell (re-elected Director) • Sam Ruby (former Director) • Patricia Shanahan (new Director) • Sander Striker (former Director)
Teams that need advanced features like code owners and enterprise features such as SAML or personalized support can upgrade to one of the paid plans.
Eclipse Foundation offers VS Code alternative The Eclipse Foundation just released version 1.0 of an opensource alternative to Visual Studio Code called Eclipse Theia. Theia is an extensible platform that allows developers to create multi-language cloud and desktop IDEs, allowing them to create entirely new developer experiences. According to the Eclipse Foundation, the differences between Theia and Visual Studio Code are that Theia has a more modular architecture, Theia was designed from the ground to run on desktop and cloud, and Theia was developed under community-driven and vendor-neutral governance of the Eclipse Foundation.
Outreachy awarded IBM Open Source Community Grant IBM has announced Outreachy is the winner of its $50,000 Open Source Community Grant. IBM started awarding quarterly grants last October as an effort to promote nonprofits dedicated to education, inclusiveness and skill building. Girls Who Code were awarded the first IBM Open Source Community Grant. Outreachy provides an internship and mentorship program in the open source and free software community for groups that face underrepresentation, systemic bias and/or discrimination in the technolo-
gy industry. The internships are done remotely, which according to IBM will become essential as people are forced to work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Interns are provided a $5,500 stipend for a threemonth internship and an additionally $500 to travel to conferences or events.
Stackery expands serverless offering Stackery announced the expansion of its serverless security and CI/CD capabilities that enable teams to automate delivery best practices. This includes additional audit capabilities, scoped IAM permissions, and secrets management for automated verification and deployment pipelines. “Our heritage is around the design and development capabilities. We’ve always had some set of deployment capabilities because if you’re building applications, you have to be able to send them somewhere. We’ve found that the customers that use us at the most scale were using our deployment capabilities to define their environments and then protecting them with Stackery,” said Tim Zonca, the CEO of Stackery. “The new capabilities build on that.”
Docker creates Compose Specification community Docker announced that it is creating a new open source community to develop the Compose Specification and more flexibly support cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) in addition to existing Compose platforms. The Compose Specification