Satya Nadella and the future of software architecture: the end of SaaS?
GenAI is disruptive and requires a change in architecture, according to Satya Nadella. He expects agents to make SaaS obsolete.
The success of Copilot: How gitHub and OpenAI work together
The acquisition of gitHub by Microsoft and their investment in OpenAI was a strategic decision and made Copilot possible.
What three billion-euro deals in open source mean for systems engineering
There is no doubt that open source is largely responsible for the fact that we are experiencing an unprecedented variety of new and innovative products. This is because open source supports unbureaucratic reuse and collaboration across organizational boundaries. Open source has also featured a lot in the business news this year: This year, after all, there have been three...
What does the acquisition of gitHub by Microsoft mean?
It is hotly debated in IT forums, but has hardly received any attention in the mainstream media: Microsoft has bought gitHub, a platform for software development projects. This is remarkable, as gitHub manages one of the largest collections of open source code. As a reminder, Microsoft has long been an opponent of open source software. Why is this interesting for systems engineering? Because it...
