If a malicious alteration is made in closed source software, it can go unnoticed.
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When Jobs was ousted from the company he co-founded the first time, in 1984, Microsoft closed its software gap with Apple in less than a decade.
After being quoted in Mr Spadaro's paper, Mr Raymond took to his own website to note that he had deliberately equated cathedrals with proprietary, closed-source software directed from above, by contrast with the more chaotic bazaar of equals which produces open-source code.
Adopting open source software would be more convenient for patients, since it would allow them to access their medical records from anywhere, and it would be less costly for hospitals and doctors who shell out lots of money to buy closed, proprietary software.
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It laid off consultants in its main business, shut a unit that produced customised software and closed down another that provided consulting to start-ups.
To provide exactly this solution, Seattle-based Optify is today announcing the expansion of its inbound marketing suite with Closed Loop Email Marketing Software.
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At the end of the day, your mortgage loan will be originated, processed, approved and closed by people, software and institutions will be the platforms that allow individuals to do their jobs, but you are choosing people to help with the single biggest financial decision most people will make.
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While Apple under Steve Jobs focused on its Macintosh closed system of hardware, software, and applications, Microsoft built an open market system on Windows: any hardware, any application, many ways to make money.
German software giant SAP just closed a strong second quarter, with revenues of 3.3 billion Euros, up 14% from a year earlier, and profits of 857 million Euros, up 11%.
According to CNET, 10 different businesses from desktop software to web security will be closed to allow Google to focus more on the markets with higher margins.
Apple has always maintained a closed ecosystem and insists on making its own hardware and software.
In a statement, Bluestacks head Rosen Sharma said its software was helping to "break open" the closed ecosystem surrounding Apple's computers.
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She closed out a launch where executives showed off a number of software features for the new BlackBerry 10 platform that had already been teased to the press over the last few months.
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Heck -- even Apple, the most famously-closed ecosystem in the entire technology industry, decouples hardware from software insomuch that Macs are released on a timetable completely unrelated to that of Mac OS and can be upgraded -- at a cost -- for many years, at the owner's leisure.
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Microsoft has closed just a handful of major deals--aQuantive, Great Plains Software, Navision, Hotmail--and none has changed the face of the company.
If you've used any of the firm's previous DJ software controllers, well, you can probably use this thing with your eyes closed.
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The advantage to the closed approach is obvious to Apple itself: it ensures that they get a cut of any software that operates in their ecosystem.
It is essentially a closed platform, which makes it challenging and costly for hospitals to interface Epic with clinical or billing software from other companies for the purpose of merging patient information.
Matrox PC-VCR 2.0, the included software used for TV recording, includes the capability to search for specific video using keywords in closed-captioning, as well as create text transcripts of shows.
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