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Extensible Markup Language (XML) has evolved considerably in its short five-year history. It started out as a simple way to mark up data and relied on seasoned technologies for data validation, such ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Let’s take a quick dip into Open Data Lakes Analytics. But before we do, we need to cross off some names and ...