Many of the processes in the shipping industry have been in use for years, but new technologies could dramatically change how the industry operates, and the ways in which it moves goods around the globe.
Amazon.com Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc., two of Oracle Corp.’s biggest customers, are actively working to replace Oracle software running on crucial business systems with lower cost open-source database software.
A change in software license agreement has drawn angry comments online, accusing the company of trying to steer users of GPUs for AI applications toward the expensive, high-end Tesla product line.
IBM was one of the first big companies to see blockchain’s promise, contributing code to an open-source effort and encouraging startups to try the technology on its cloud for free.