Talend Stitch

Five years back, I came to know about Talend as open source ETL product in conjunction with Pentaho.  It was part of my earlier assignment to evluate the open source ETL product against Informatica. Talend expands its business base in greater focus.

Yday, there was an industry news that Talend is buying  Stitch, a 2-year old Philadelphia-based spinoff of RJ Metrics for $60 million in cash.

Stitch offers a cloud-based self-service offering that automates data ingestion pipelines into the cloud. It's an emerging space where the closest competitors are Alooma and Fivetran, but also where Confluent and StreamSets play. In its two years, Stitch has already built a customer base exceeding 1000 customers

Talend has not yet announced a closing date for the deal.

.NET Standard 2.1

.NET Core is the open source, cross-platform, and fast-moving version of .NET. Because of its side-by-side nature it can take changes that we can’t risk applying back to .NET Framework. This means that .NET Core will get new APIs and language features over time that .NET Framework cannot. At Build we showed a demo how the file APIs are faster on .NET Core. If we put those same changes into .NET Framework we could break existing applications, and we don’t want to do that.

The .NET Standard specification is a standardized set of APIs. The specification is maintained by .NET implementors, specifically Microsoft (includes .NET Framework, .NET Core, and Mono) and Unity. A public feedback process is used as part of establishing new .NET Standard versions through GitHub.

Since Microsoft shipped .NET Standard 2.0 about a year ago,  it’s time to update the standard to include some of the new concepts as well as a number of small improvements that make your life easier across the various implementations of .NET.

In total, about 3k APIs are planned to be added in .NET Standard 2.1. A good chunk of them are brand-new APIs while others are existing APIs that we added to the standard in order to converge the .NET implementations even further.

Announcement details are available at https://github.com/dotnet/standard/blob/master/docs/planning/netstandard-2.1/README.md

IBM RedHat

This Monday (29 Oct) IBM  announced that it would pay a record $34 billion in cash and debt to acquire enterprise open source provider Red Hat. 

Eclipsing Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, this is the biggest software acquisition in history. It’s not the biggest tech acquisition ever, though, as that title belongs to Dell’s $67 billion buyout of data storage business EMC.

During RedHat Summit (May) 2018, there was a press release about long-standing relationship between IBM and Red Hat to benefit the combined power of both companies’ technologies in private and public clouds.  Ref: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-and-red-hat-join-forces-accelerate-hybrid-cloud-adoption

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-and-red-hat-join-forces-accelerate-hybrid-cloud-adoption