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.

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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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And open source software founders get to focus on what they do best, which is creating technology and community.

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To this end, members of the WEF YGL are creating technology blueprints, which use widely available commodity hardware and open source software as the building blocks of high-performing, cost-effective cloud solutions.

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SourceForge, a destination for technology professionals and enthusiasts to develop, download, review and publish open source software, much of which they use in their own organizations.

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"Hyperscale companies architect their infrastructure with bare bones servers and open source software that scales-out cost-effectively in the hundreds and thousands, " said David Floyer, Wikibon Chief Technology Officer.

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