Open software in the cloud would translate to a near-term decline in sales, support, consulting and upgrades.
In October, the company updated its open software platform that allows other developers to build Dropbox inside their services to better support websites.
ECoS is an open software platform that can host a range of third-party applications that provide intelligent distributed control services to utilities and their customers.
Nina is also the first solution that provides an open software development kit (SDK) to support the rapid integration of virtual assistant capabilities into existing mobile applications.
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"By making ioScale available to growing webscale and emerging cloud companies, Fusion-io is at the forefront of the transition to the all-flash hyperscale datacenter, powered by open software defined solutions, " said David Flynn, Fusion-io CEO and Chairman.
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The OpenStack Foundation and the Open Compute Project is a community of 150 companies committed to building cloud architecture based upon open source software and open hardware standards.
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.
The non-profit software company that develops open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.
ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), today announced the formation of Linaro, a not-for-profit open source software engineering company dedicated to enhancing open source innovation for the next wave of always-connected, always-on computing.
But adoption of open source software does not necessarily mean adoption of open source-based big data technologies.
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Many software companies are already prospering by developing open source software and services.
The company has long been a contributor to the Linux and open source software communities and is well known for its work on open operating systems as well as the open cloud.
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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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In addition, VMware has championed much open source software creation, buying SpringSource, a tools and service provider for open source communities.
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.
With a staff of three, Abayima is working on open-source software, called Open Sim Kit, to do just that.
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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In 2004, the creator of Claroline left to start Dokeos, a competing open source software.
One area that appears to make sense for incubators is open source software development.
New features on the newest version should continue the momentum for this open source software upstart.
In addition, NASA Ames was offering a open source software for mission control.
The open source software also contains a journal and automatically saves and backs up all data.
The open source software community has traditionally assumed that their software would run on commodity hardware.
Using open source software helps reduce costs, encourage innovation and accelerate economic growth and efficiency, they argue.
The deal is part of a five-year plan by China to get more people using open source software.
Things are different now because both the browser and OS markets are becoming dominated by open source software.
So have smaller and less expected outfits, including Adobe and companies leveraging predictive open source software.
Last year, says Marwan Muasher, the foreign minister, American Express wanted to open a software center in Amman.
She built FastPDF with open source software, so no licensing of maintenance fees, and hosted the service with an outside firm.
One application, called Shibboleth, is a piece of open source software that enables users to share restricted online resources.
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