Its primary commercial source is natural gas, which has more efficient and beneficial uses.
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Developers can also tap into the world's largest commercial source of Album Cover Art, artist biographies and other related content.
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Points 1, 2, and 3 have been addressed by dozens of companies that are pursuing commercial open source models.
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The largest of the commercial open source application companies like Alfresco, the enterprise content management vendor, are smaller than that.
Commercial open source companies allow their products to be downloaded and used.
The third challenge is the same as for other commercial open source companies, which is getting customers to convert from using the product to paying for a subscription.
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Dries Buytaert is chief technology officer at Acquia, a commercial open source software company providing products, services and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system.
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This space is a cooperative battleground between the commercial open source world of Hadoop and the enterprise vendors such as EMC Greenplum, Teradata Aster, HP Vertica, IBM Neteeza, and many others.
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Many companies, both commercial and open source, have floundered because they had a great product but not enough customers.
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When financing is required, commercial banks are one source to meet this need.
Amidst the doom and gloom that has been the retail beat, a welcome commercial break from an unexpected source offers a breath of fresh air.
Hence the importance of the commercial fringe to open-source software.
Of course, every open source project and every commercial product must evolve.
For many of these states, offshore wind is the most abundant indigenous energy source and the only commercial option for renewable power generation, especially in southern states where land-based resources become scarcer with decreasing latitude.
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Unlike early pioneers SAS and SPSS (now owned by IBM), Revolution Analytics fits the mold of other key new players in the big data world: it supports and sells the commercial version of an open-source product, built and nurtured over many years by a dedicated community of enthusiasts.
He also saw the functional and commercial vernacular of Liverpool as a source for a more familiar and time-tested kind of design, and he began to use local materials, like red brick, to modify the structural glass and steel of the university buildings at Cambridge and Leicester done in the late '50s and early '60s, without sacrificing the radical rethinking of program and space that modernism encouraged.
This explains Microsoft's strangest response to Linux: its doom-laden warnings that Linux and other open-source software will destroy the commercial industry entirely.
But it is also worth remembering that central banks are not the only source of money creation: commercial banks are normally much more important.
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For one, in a predatory global market, we would be eliminating a facility that constitutes a vital source of financing for the commercial industrial base for foreign sales.
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But if you take into account the use of open source products like Xen and KVM in massive data centers, web server farms, and by web application providers like Google and Salesforce.com, the CPUs running open source virtualization likely dwarfs the commercial market.
This is a highly sensitive business, the number of companies around the world that have the technology to produce this kind of cell is very limited and by us going out on the BBC and explaining where our source is is equivalent to commercial suicide.
This made such funds, in turn, an unreliable source of finance in repo, commercial paper and other markets.
Mid America Brick provides an independent, local source of bricks for residential and commercial construction in Missouri and surrounding states.
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But they are refusing to allow independent analysis of the program's source code, on the grounds of commercial confidentiality.
Hadoop is neither a community-based open source project like Linux or Drupal nor a commercial open core company like Alfresco, or JBoss.
One recent evening, almost the only source of light in the town's commercial district was Harry's Lobster House, which has been serving lobster bisque since 1933.
The on-going transformation in microfinance means grants and subsidies are a thing of the past and commercial sources of funding will continue to be the major source of funding.
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The CMBS market is watched closely in the commercial real-estate industry because the securities are an important source of finance.
Increasingly, the PRC is using U.S. capital markets both as a source of central-government funding for military and commercial development and as a means of cloaking U.S. technology-acquisition efforts by its front companies with a patina of regularity and respectability.
Sanchez said that not only is the license unclear, but corners of the open source community have little or no interest in working with commercial entities to integrate proprietary and free software.
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