The Apache Software Foundation is celebrating their 15th year during ApacheCon Europe this week, and is recognizing the achievements the organizations has accomplished in that time. Apache powers nearly half of the Internet and includes a large number of companies including Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, GP, IBM, Microsoft, and Yahoo. More from Global News Wire
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UAE Exchange is the largest money transfer and foreign exchange company in the region by a number of metrics and their IT team has struggled to keep up with the company’s rapid growth.The centralized structure the company relied on was no longer adequate to support the company so they began searching for new solutions. After […]
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Unicode figures for digital text communications have been standardized for a while, but the images used along with it have not, leading to a situation where many developers were using emoticon images without proper permissions. Rather than fighting a shaky legal landscape, Twitter decided to make their own HTML and graphic standards for Unicode graphics […]
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A recent report showed that across all software projects, open source software had fewer bugs and security problems than proprietary software, but this statistic doesn’t paint the entire picture. Proprietary software often has teams dedicated to evaluating the security of their company’s software, but open source often lacks these teams. Static analysis tools can help […]
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A panel of investors discussed investments in the OpenStack ecosystem at the recent OpenStack summit in Paris. Large corporations like Red Hat and Cisco are acquiring OpenStack companies and OpenStack provider Mirantis recently raised $100 million in funding. OpenStack still doesn’t completely stand up against other mature cloud platforms like Amazon’s Web Services, but it […]
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Barclays and CommBank have announced a partnership to develop an open source extract, transform, load (ETL) tool that works on top of Hadoop to evaluate large sets of data. The ETL market is currently dominated by proprietary offerings that require expensive new licenses every time a bank wants to evaluate a new data set. An […]
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Open source software development is drastically reducing development costs and time with open source databases, operating systems, and web servers leading the charge. Developers are ahead of this curve with nearly unanimous use of open source cloud, mobile, and big data platforms; today, only about 1 in 5 developers are not using open source on […]
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Bob Young, co-founder of Red Hat, has been an entrerpenuer most of his life, and he caught on to the value of open source technologies through working with Linux in the early 90’s. He become concivinced in the future of Linux after seeing a custom build used to run a supercomputer at the Goddard Space […]
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OpenStack is increasingly becoming the cloud platform of choice for many companies including IBM, HP, Intel, Mirantis, and Rackspace because of its highly-flexible design. A recent IDG survey found that 84%of companies plan to use OpenStack in the near future, and 55% of companies are struggling to find the professionals needed to do so. Understanding […]
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Wipro, the third largest software exporter in India is planning to expand their open source teams to 10,000 people. The company estimates savings up to 20% within 18 to 26 months and they currently do not have a timeline for acheiving this, though it is expected to take 1 to 2 years or more. The […]
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James Pearce explains the role open source has played at facebook since it was founded and the practices he uses for developing open source business methodologies. Pearce has 12 concepts he uses in his work. Always articulate the value FOSS brings to the company. Use your own open source. Decentralize project ownership Invest in Instrumentation […]
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Both the software and pharmaceutical industries are experiencing ongoing problems with hampered innovation due to burdensome patent law. In 2007, Médecins Sans Frontières created a new innovation inducement prize for tuberculosis that gave a proportion of the prize money to any researchers who produced open work that contributed to the winning product. The idea was […]
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Open access journals provide an alternative to expensive paid journals for use in research and they help propagate knowledge by making it more accessible. Here are five great open access journals that provide a wealth of high quality, free information. First Monday – Covers communication issues on the internet such as censorship and digital media […]
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Any business that wants to use open source software must understand a few important things. First, open source and free software are not the same. Free software is always open source, but open source is not always free software. Second, just because many developers contribute freely to open source, it doesn’t mean they will prioritize […]
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The second annual All Things Open (ATO) conference is right around the corner in Raleigh, NC. The first year was a major success, attracting over 800 attendees, making it one of the biggest open source conferences on the east coast. This year the conference is expanding in many directions, including adding content that targets users […]
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Mozilla is currently redesigning their logo and is looking to the community for help in the process. The primary goal is to create a logo that doesn’t rely on Adobe Illustrator specific masks so that anyone can open and edit the logo on the design software of their choice. The company chose to do this […]
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Following the wake of Alice v. CLS Bank, the US Patent Office has more than tripled its software patent rejection rate. 24% of software patents were rejected by the office in January of this year, in July the rate rose to 78%. The ruling affected what are known as “business method” patents and essentially stated […]
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Mark Hinkle is at the forefront of open source cloud through his work at Citrix on Apache CloudStack, OpenDaylight, and the Xen Project. In this interview, he discusses ongoing trends in the open source cloud industry. Migrating to cloud solutions is a challenge for many businesses because it is widely different than the server-client model. […]
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Docker and Microsoft have announced a partnership to extend Docker to Windows, improve Docker’s orchestration API support, integrate Docker Hub with Microsoft Azure, and collaborate on the multi-Docker container model to create apps that consist of both Linux and Windows Docker containers. This move will effectively double the size of Docker’s developer base and open […]
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Cask, formerly Continuuity, is a company that makes software that helps developers build applications that run on Hadoop. Along with their new name, they’ve brought Boyd Davis, the man behind Intel’s $740 million investment in Hadoop vendor Cloudera, on as CEO. The company has plans to open source much of their software in an effort […]
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A Brief Introduction to Open Licensing
Open source communities rely heavily on the ability to freely share information with all participants; this participation requires some form of legal protection to ensure the people involved are not on the receiving end of potentially disastrous litigation. Open licensing serves as a legal method for ensuring the spread of information by protecting participants. This […]
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TradeMonster took a different approach to designing their high-performance trading engine than their competitors. Sanjib Sahoo, the CTO, built the engine in large from 50 different open source platforms. Their unique business model has propelled them to 2nd place in Barron’s Best Online Brokers survey. More from Info World.
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Docker has achieved incredible success in the short two years it has been in existence, but some of the tech companies that have been involved since the early days are beginning to question whether or not the project still lives up to its original goal of making packaging software simpler. CoreOS is one of the […]
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Benetech started out in open source, like many other contributors, by scratching their own itch and sharing their work openly. The communities they shared with reciprocated leading Benetech down a path of success that has spanned two decades. Benetech supports the Humanitarian Free and Open Source community through their development of products to help the […]
