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Simon Sharwood writes in »Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform« for theregister.com CEO Alexander Windbichler told The Register that after Broadcom acquired VMware, increased licensing costs, and made big changes to its partner program, Anexia remained eligible to operate a VMware-powered cloud. But Windbichler felt he couldn’t afford to continue, because Broadcom offered new terms that saw the cost of VMware licenses rise sharply. The CEO preferred not to enumerate the increase precisely however The Register understands it exceeded 500 percent. ...

»Zuckerberg’s censorship claims were ‘misleading’ — EU tech chief« for politico.eu “Europe has an ever increasing number of laws institutionalizing censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative there,” Zuckerberg said. The longer I think about it, the more I hope the EU stands up to the pressure from the tech giants and possibly from the future US president. It should be the EU’s responsibility to decide how business is conducted here. If that makes the European market less attractive to companies like Meta or Apple, they are of course free to withdraw. ...

Matthias Ott wrote the post “Highlighting Blogging on Mastodon” six months ago, and today I’ve added the meta tag to this little page as well. <meta property="fediverse:creator" content="@[email protected]" /> The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

Creating a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for container images is no longer an issue. The handy tool “syft” lets you easily generate an SBOM in your desired format. This process can also be fully automated. Installation is very simple, and running it is straightforward as well. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

The year has only just begun, and it might be a good time to resolve to track project working hours more efficiently. In this, “Solidtime” can be a helpful aid. You can either install Open-Source-Anwendung via Docker on your own hardware or use the vendor-hosted version for a small fee. Solidtime stands out with clear graphics and is both user-friendly and easy to understand. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...