Is it possible to replace Linux as the heart of serverless cloud computing services? That's exactly the intention of a startup consisting of developers from the open source Postgres database project ...

When considering AI, remember that databases are unlike most systems because they hold the records the business depends on.

DBOS Inc., a new startup led by prominent computer scientists, launched today with $8.5 million in seed funding and an operating system designed to challenge Linux. Engine Ventures led the investment.

Customers run the same Base Database Service available in OCI on a compact engineered system called Data Infrastructure Cloud@Customer X11. The 8U system is installed at a customer’s facility, and ...