Moreover, the philosophy of open source has started to enter into the framework of research.
Open source has also had a tremendous impact on how academics do research.
Yes, because while open source has been in existence since the early 1990s, it is still in the early stages of commercialization.
Open source has an unacknowledged footprint in many other markets as well.
"Open source has become an engine for innovation in the smart phone and consumer electronics market, " said Teppo Hemia, vice president, 3G Multimedia Platforms Business Unit of ST-Ericsson.
Open source has been used primarily in IT shops and especially on Unix platforms, where a number of necessary components are by tradition open source (things like file systems or graphical user interfaces).
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Of course, open source software has often been championed as the low-cost option.
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Over 16 million people have downloaded our business intelligence suite, and our open source community has over 350, 000 members.
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Qt, which is open source and has already been around for years but is just really getting the limelight today, makes app creation much quicker than before.
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However, his point about the program's slightly risky, monolithic design is well taken, and cautious sites may wish to adopt Postfix (which is open source licensed) or Qmail (which has an almost open source license) (see Resources).
The open source software community has traditionally assumed that their software would run on commodity hardware.
The open-source movement has blossomed into a robust philosophy of transparency and collaboration with the potential to transform all industries.
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The open-source platform has proved hugely successful for Samsung, which is now second only to Apple in the global smartphone race.
The open source hardware company has partnered with Sparkfun ( see my popular post on Nathan Seidle and his leadership style) to manufacture the circuit boards.
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According to many tech pundits, Eucalyptus is one of a handful of emerging open source companies that has a legitimate shot at becoming a billion dollar enterprise.
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Technically Google Android is open source, but Google has managed to impose lots of restrictions.
In the battle for who will become the most used open source cloud platform CloudStack has just hit a major milestone.
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The use of open source in software development has demonstrated that, at least in some industries, open developers can effectively compete against industrial giants.
The user-friendly site, which runs on open source Chinese wiki software, has colorful graphics and icons to click on imaginatively designed sections.
He reads Chinese military texts in translation, some published by the U.S. government's Open Source Center and some he has found himself.
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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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Beyond that, any company that has open-source software sitting on its networks, integrated into its digital intellectual property, might have to circle the wagons and figure out what to do.
The open-source machine-maker has made Ubuntu PCs before, like the Gazelle and Serval laptops and the recent Sable Complete all-in-one, but none come close to the Bonobo Extreme in terms of speed and performance.
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The Vatican has its own Observatory, is exploring an open source ethos, accepts evolution, and on the whole has rejected its stereotypical medieval anti-science stereotype.
In addition, VMware has championed much open source software creation, buying SpringSource, a tools and service provider for open source communities.
With Deltacloud, its open-source offering, Red Hat has set out to standardize the cloud, which has already begun to splinter into vertical stacks.
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In addition to the basic open-source components, the browser has also been augmented with out-of-the-box plug-ins, including the latest versions of Adobe FlashTM and a PDF reader.
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Last month at Mobile World Congress the company said it was on track to bring out a phone that runs on the Tizen open-source operating system that it has helped develop in collaboration with Intel.
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It is the advent of open source programming and the web that has opened up this idea of a visible portfolio for coders and engineers, whose work never used to see the light of day.
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Linux, the "open-source" pc operating system, has a different sort of cultism, one more disposed to compatibility.
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