Governments are finally becoming aware of the implications of combining cloud computing practices with open source initiatives for their citizenry.
But ubiquitous digital consumer data, cheap computing power and open-source software have created a tremendous opportunity for smart marketers to change the research game.
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Naveh says a lot of the work the company does is so-called open source intelligence, with trained experts using computing and other technological tools to connect the dots of information that are already in the public domain, particularly on the Internet and social networks.
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Ubuntu is a free, open-source platform for client, server and cloud computing.
The SUSE Linux enterprise computing platform allows for high interoperability between open source and proprietary systems.
The segment offers operating systems, network services and workgroup computing software solutions based on the Linux open source operating system.
The company just announced Cloud Foundry, an open source system in which developers can build applications for cloud computing, without having to work in specific underlying technologies.
In addition, it is arriving at a time in which some of the traditional advantages of open source-based business models have eroded because of cloud computing and other developments.
Cloud computing fundamentally shifts the benefits of the Open Source movement, fueling innovation from new sectors, and impacting our culture at large in ways that parallel how we have seen Twitter and Facebook up-end the status quo.
Traditionally, the Linux and open-source software communities focused on solving the software problems of enterprise and computing markets with a limited choice of processor platforms.
Erlang, developed by telecommunications company Ericsson for massively parallel computing in a phone network, then later released as an open source language, both influenced Scala and is enjoying some rebirth in the world of global data centers.
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.
That task has fallen to an unlikely open source project that is based on cryptography protocols and peer-to-peer distributed computing.
Keyglove is an Open Source Hardware (OSHW) project that's intended to eliminate those clunky keyboards and unmanageable mice from the computing process altogether, instead engaging a series of conductive sensors that, when touched together, mimic a keystroke.
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