Feeding frenzy on the artificial intelligence and big data front. Goodbye and #8216;Obama production peak! and #8217; Mergers and acquisitions apace. Cfihos high point of standards scene, but Excel? really? Cognitive, clouds, Docker, blockchain and microservices on the up. Oil IT Journal, feet firmly on the ground, reported on real AI progress and on open source software and #8217;s new upstream respectability.