Kaskade, the newly-appointed CEO of Infochimps, believes CIOs are ready to embrace open source big data software and that the established IT players, lacking open source experience, will have to buy their way into the market.
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Zero coincidentally, that same day EMC released an open source version of its data warehousing software, hoping to attract the kind of developers who might otherwise work on R.
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EBay also adopted new tools for big-data processing, such as the open-source software framework Hadoop and a system called Mobius that was developed in its labs.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands that every research project it funds has to make its full data set freely available, like open-source software code.
The Open Compute Project intends to develop servers and data centers that follow the model traditionally associated with open source software projects.
But unlike those projects, OONI uses only open-source software and plans to make the raw data gathered by its tools public and accessible to any researcher.
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The software has the intelligence to determine how data in one source (like customer names) are related to data in another (like customer transactions) and to reformat info to reconcile presentation differences (like a middle initial).
The open source software also contains a journal and automatically saves and backs up all data.
But adoption of open source software does not necessarily mean adoption of open source-based big data technologies.
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It works well when cities open their data to the public or when, as in the case of Wikipedia, an open-source software platform supports open-source content.
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While an open source approach isn't the right solution for every software need, using and contributing back to open source software is one way that we're making it easier for the government to share data, improve tools and services, and return value to taxpayers.
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