In short, Adobe has embraced the open web, contributing input and code to both WC3 web standards and WebKit open source web browser engine.
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The software powering the device is built on the open-source Linux kernel and the open-source WebKit Web browser engine, Rathakrishnan says.
Mr Behlendorf was a pioneer in the development of the well-known Apache open-source web server, so his views come as little surprise.
Luckily, the open-source and Web-based alternatives are cheaper and, more importantly, more convenient for small businesses.
Google is also working with Adobe and Mozilla, the foundation behind the open-source Firefox Web browser to rework how third party technologies, such as Flash, are built into browsers, Upson wrote.
The open source community is transitioning to create advanced Web-centric consumer devices using high profile open source based distributions and a wide range of high-performance, low-power ARM(R)-based SoCs.
The September Netcraft survey puts the open source Apache share of web servers at 57 percent.
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.
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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Cost effective ways of digitizing AV materials and providing access were presented, such as using open source programs available on the web.
Systems integration company Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego offers a product called Open Source Monitoring that scans the Web, newsgroups, Listservs and any other public forums for names and trademarks.
Open source software such as Apache Web server and the Linux server operating system have become popular systems to run not only on network servers, but also on server appliances (servers dedicated to single tasks such as e-mail and Web site hosting).
Drupal is one of several open source-based frameworks for creating web sites.
But if you take into account the use of open source products like Xen and KVM in massive data centers, web server farms, and by web application providers like Google and Salesforce.com, the CPUs running open source virtualization likely dwarfs the commercial market.
The biggest way that open source touches each of us is through web-based applications.
Apache, a software project of the open source movement, claims the majority of the Web server market.
The activity streams standard is an open source project created by Chris Messina, Open Web Advocate at Google.
The rise of participatory culture in social media, Web 2.0, open source, mobile networks, is teaching us that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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But playing ball with the open source community can lead companies into a tangled web of licensing issues, some of which may be irreconcilable with the agenda of a for-profit company like Apple.
WordPress, open source software used by over 15% of the web including The New York Times and Forbes.com, turns nine today.
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Open-source programs across the board - the Apache Web server, the Perl programming language and the GNU development tool set, to name a few - are gaining legitimacy as a business platform.
For those tracking the growing malicious elements on the Web, Chrome's innovation--and GreenBorder's contribution to the open-source browser--is a technology known as "sandboxing, " a tactic that limits Web applications' access to a computer's memory beyond a virtual border.
This would presumably be in the form of a browser-based web conferencing platform based on an open-source platform (and would not require the installation of any software).
Companies as diverse as activity streaming platform SocialCast (recently bought by VMWare), IBM, start-ups like Huddle, Box, behemoth SAP, Microsoft, Moxie, Jive, CISCO, Nortel, old platforms like SocialText, old web platforms like Broadvision, Alfresco from open source, are competing for attention in this space.
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An update to the open source Flex framework provides developers with a common framework for building web, desktop and now mobile applications.
Other big applications built on Firefox's underlying code include Songbird, an open-source version of Apple's iTunes, and Joost, a high-quality Web video channel.
He also oversaw the development of NCSA Mosaic--the Web browser that led to Netscape Navigator--as well as the popular open-source server software known as Apache.
McDerment's online strategy starts with his Web site, which features a custom-made forum that runs on free, open-source software called PunBB.
You Are Not a Gadget is a manifesto in the starkest sense of the term: Lanier fully articulates his final and somewhat absolute break with the open source movement typified by what he describes as the "Libertarians" of Silicon Valley and the proponents of Web 2.0.
This is the way large web operations such as Google and Facebook manage Internet-scale data processing, although the Web players tend to take a do-it-yourself approach based on internally developed or open-source software.
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