Snowflake Report Finds GenAI Paying Off for Enterprises Despite Data Challenges

The latest Snowflake report titled “The ROI of Gen AI and Agents” shows that GenAI seems to be working quite well in the enterprise setting – contrary to other reports that either point to feverish hype or stubborn skepticism. An overwhelming 92% of early adopters say they are seeing positive returns from the GenAI investments. …

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Oracle rejects request it give up control of MySQL

Oracle has formally refused to restructure control of the Community Edition of MySQL, following a request that it do so from a consortium of database companies providing forks of the database, and from MySQL users. The decision comes after the consortium’s major players, Percona and VillageSQL, met Oracle earlier this month to discuss the changes…

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Drive business productivity through open collaboration, AI and document creation

Businesses of all sizes depend on “office” suites for their day-to-day tasks and for collaboration. AI, for its part, promises significant productivity gains for knowledge workers and for anyone who works with documents. According to studies, we spend over half our time using “office” software. And the global market for productivity applications is worth $22.5…

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First look: Electrobun for TypeScript-powered desktop apps

Ever since Electron’s first release, developers have both rejoiced and lamented. Electron offers a convenient way to package a web-UI application across platforms, with almost exactly the same behavior, UI/UX, and underlying codebase everywhere. But it also imposes a large memory and disk-space footprint, bundling a full copy of a web browser and JavaScript runtime…

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