An update to the open source Flex framework provides developers with a common framework for building web, desktop and now mobile applications.

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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.

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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.

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Moy says that the poor results of the NSS test are particularly surprising given that the vulnerabilities the lab tested were publicly described by government sources like CERT and MITRE, and the exploits they used came from the open-source penetration testing framework Metasploit.

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We all believe that the open-source nature of the Hadoop framework will drive cost down, and most importantly create new value and innovation in a very short time frame.

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Maritz, with no installed base, wants the Java-coding hoards from Spring, or the open source communities around the Web application framework Ruby on Rails or the scalable network programming framework Node.js.

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Moreover, the philosophy of open source has started to enter into the framework of research.

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