OpenXC platform will transform the car into a plug-and-play platform where interchangeable open-source hardware and software modules that can be quickly and easily customized by developers for specific tasks.
This would presumably be in the form of a browser-based web conferencing platform based on an open-source platform (and would not require the installation of any software).
OpenGamma, a startup which has so far received two rounds of funding from Accel Partners and FirstMark Capital, is creating a open-source-based platform for trading and risk analytics software to support front office applications.
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In an essay on his personal site that's been circulating the interwebs, Marc Deslauriers outlines the pangs he and the Linux community have felt over the years trying to use iPods on the open source platform, surmising that Apple is intentionally and repeatedly seeking ways to block non-iTunes programs from syncing in any way with its devices.
The SUSE Linux enterprise computing platform allows for high interoperability between open source and proprietary systems.
The Platform was developed with a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) framework by the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa within the Africa Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR) Consortium comprising of 11 African universities.
Ubuntu is a free, open-source platform for client, server and cloud computing.
This extends Azure even further, after a solid year of enhancements to the PaaS platform which included more Linux support and expanded open source developer toolkits.
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Rubin spent more than three years developing the technology and support for an open-source handset platform, beginning with his days with an eight-person start-up called Android.
The timing of the report coincides with recent discussions in the OpenStack project about the lack of interoperability and compatibility between the various deployments of the open source platform.
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Before this strategy Nokia had the goal of developing Meego who was an open source Linux platform made with the help of Intel and other hardware makers with the objective of being capable of be instaled on phones, tablets, PCs, GPS, Televisions and making everything syncronized.
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The cross-platform nature of Adobe AIR means the iPlayer will work with Open Source and Apple Mac computers "out of the box" on 18 December, said Mr Rose.
The open-cage printer will work using "fused filament fabrication" with 1.75mm filament, and will also feature 100 micron layer resolution (0.1 millimeter), rigid aluminum construction, an open-source software tool chain and optional heated build platform.
"Phone makers can focus on building cooler hardware and new platforms, and save 10% of their software costs" with an open source platform, asserts Rubin.
When you have a mainstream PC manufacturer and the leading digital distribution platform for video games both championing Linux, open-source proponents are bound to start cheering.
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He had the technical skills needed to solve this problem and started to build the first traffic platform that combined GPS technology with open source software.
And outside the open source search domain, companies like Rosslyn Analytics have developed a platform approach to complex data integration problems.
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Lucene Solr is an open source technology and community that has proved its worth in heavy hitting applications inside platform companies like LinkedIn and Zappos.
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Since the open-source platform was first unveiled in 2007, Google has let developers, device makers and wireless carriers, and more recently even Facebook, modify the platform to suit their business interests.
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Enter Spark, a seven-inch slate that comes running the Plasma Active UX, an open-source OS based on Linux kernel, KDE's multi-platform Plasma environment and a dash of Qt for good measure.
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