In the press

Amanda Brock, CEO at OpenUK, was quoted in a tier 1 publication by Politico on reacting to Baroness Stowell’s letter on copyright. This was published in a follow-up on the topic for newsletter subscribers.

Discussing the IBM acquisition of Hashicorp and its impact on Cloud and open source with Cliff Saran at Computer Weekly IBM sees a big opportunity to migrate customers away from VMware onto OpenShift, with its $6.4bn acquisition of HashiCorp part of the plan. Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK said the acquisition of HashiCorp “enables IBM to strengthen

TNW reported on 2024’s main open source developers’ events and its key themes, featuring SOOCon and quoted Amanda Brock. The article highlighted SOOCON AI consultation sessions with the UK’s science and innovation department and Home Office.

FluxCD has been sponsored by ControlPlane highlighting one of the many benefits of open source – its enabling customers and users continuous usage irrespective of the software’s commercial sponsor. OpenUK CEO, Amanda Brock, comments in ITPro.

Open source licences are under the microscope in Software Freedom Conservancy’s law suit against Vizio. ‘The open source movement experiences “growing pains”‘ says our CEO, Amanda Brock.

Amanda Brock CEO of OpenUK celebrates the role and positioning of the UK open source companies and community in contributions to open source as Runa Capital share their new ROSS Index.

Government has been warned that failure to invest in the underlying telecoms networks needed to handle the large influx in traffic from AI will mean its Spring Budget pledge to invest significantly in the technology is futile.

“The Budget hasn’t delivered much upon the promise that the UK tech sector can be evolved into the next Silicon Valley – with the budget offering little to enable skills building or to build on the current tax breaks for serious investors. Although the introduction of the new £5k individual ISA for investment in the

“The Budget hasn’t delivered much upon the promise that the UK tech sector can be evolved into the next Silicon Valley – with the budget offering little to enable skills building or to build on the current tax breaks for serious investors. Although the introduction of the new £5k individual ISA for investment in the

“When the godfather of open source declares that the initiative has failed, what’s next for a movement that has succeeded in deploying its software in over 96 percent of modern IT stacks?” Ann-Marie Corvin reports on her conversations with Bruce Perens and Amanda Brock at State of Open Con 24.