The two luminaries, joined with a team of MIT and Stanford computer scientists to create DBOS, which is an acronym that stands for database-oriented operating system.

Databricks is signaling its intent to get ahead in this next generation of app building, announcing it will purchase open-source serverless Postgres company Neon.

Data analytics platform Databricks said on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Neon, a startup building an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, for about $1 billion. Databricks said ...