But adoption of open source software does not necessarily mean adoption of open source-based big data technologies.

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As our enterprise customers move to open, hybrid cloud architectures, we are addressing their needs with a clear roadmap based on industry-leading open source technologies.

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Google is also working with Adobe and Mozilla, the foundation behind the open-source Firefox Web browser to rework how third party technologies, such as Flash, are built into browsers, Upson wrote.

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Both Memcached, which accelerates existing relational databases like MySQL, and Redis, which is a complete, stand-alone database and acceleration solution, are open source technologies.

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