This week, we discuss our AI usage, recap key announcements from VMware Explore, and examine RedMonk's analysis of how open-source licensing impacts revenue and market cap. Plus, some thoughts on power bricks.

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Runner-up Titles

• Information wants to be free, yo


• Stay In The Bushes


• Tip Jar Culture


• Tell Me About Meatloaf


• I want you in here with me


• Platforms For Building Platforms


• Private SaaS


• Mom and Dad having a fun conversation on a road trip


• I have my special chargers


• I want it back

Rundown

• Sign up for Coté’s Newsletter


• IDC's Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending


• Private Cloud at VMware Explore - Notebook


• Cursor.com


• OSS
  
  
  
  
  • Software Licensing Changes and Their Impact on Financial Outcomes
  
  
  • Coté’s proposal for how to fix it.
  
  
  • Another Thread from Adam Jacob on OSS
  
  


• Zoom Docs Is Here. Is It Any Good?

Relevant to your Interests

• Apple’s App Store Head to Leave in Reorganization Amid Global Scrutiny


• Snowflake Outlook Fails to Ease Investor Fears of Competition


• Microsoft revamps reporting structure to give better visibility into cloud consumption revenue


• More than 28% of Americans are searching for new jobs — the highest rate in a decade


• Microsoft is reportedly making more branding changes for Copilot business services


• SolarWinds left hardcoded credentials in helpdesk product


• Intel has hired Morgan Stanley, other advisers for activist defense


• The Future of the Trade Show Industry – Are We In Danger of Losing Our Soul?


• The massive Social Security number breach is actually a good thing


• Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS


• Grafana Labs raises $270M


• Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software,


• Rackspace Goes All In – Again – On OpenStack


• Sonos App Debacle Leaves Company Racing to Save Its Reputation

Nonsense

• Chick-fil-A Opens First Elevated Drive-Thru Concept


• How Costco Hacked the American Shopping Psyche


• NASA Picks SpaceX to Rescue Astronauts Marooned in Space


• The startup teaching your computer how to smell

Conferences

• DevOpsDays Antwerp, Coté Speaking, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary.


• Civo Navigate Europe, Berlin, Sept 10-11, 2024.


• SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.


• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.


• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21st, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Ozlo Sleepbuds.


• Coté: Original Cloud Foundry launch videos, April, 2011.

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