Network Break 442: HashiCorp Swaps Open Source For BSL; Open Enterprise Linux Goes After RHEL

Take a Network Break! This week we cover new advances in interconnects for AI workloads and look a little more carefully at the potential impact of superconductors on computing. HashiCorp swaps its open source licensing for a Business Source License to protect itself from companies that might take its software and build a competing company. Oracle, SUSE Linux, and CIQ announce a new Linux distribution that directly targets Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Fortinet releases a new firewall with the company’s latest security ASIC, and Caltech reaches a possible settlement with Broadcom on a patent dispute. Last but not least, Google hopes to get workers back to the office by offering a $99 “special” to stay on at a hotel on the company’s Mountain View, CA campus instead of having to commute from home. Sounds like the worst staycation ever. Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks Your branch has changed. Your SD-WAN should, too. Join Palo Alto Networks to see how AI/ML is powering next-gen SD-WAN and SASE for the branch. SDxCentral and Palo Alto Networks hosted an exclusive online event that shows how next-gen SD-WAN and SASE can help you modernize and secure your branches. Go to SDXcentral.com to get the link to this free event to see the replay. Show Links: XConn Technologies Launches the Industry’s First and Only Hybrid CXL 2.0 and PCIe Gen 5 Switch – PR Newswire Engineer Details Messy LK-99 Superconductor Creation Process – Tom’s Hardware Meissner effect or bust: Day 8.5 – Andrew McCalip via Twitter HashiCorp adopts Business Source License – HaschiCorp Observations on Seven Years of Maintaining Open Source – PacketLife.net As HashiCorp adopts the BSL, an era of open-source software might be ending – Runtime News HashiCorp closes a door – Runtime News HashiCorp adopts Business Source License – Hacker News Amazon Web Services calls MongoDB’s licensing bluff with DocumentDB, a new managed database – GeekWire AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source – Stratechery Oracle, SUSE,