Fabrice Bellard, a computer programmer who is best known as the creator of the FFmpeg and QEMU software projects.
The idea is to foster a combination of Linux (for large-scale software projects) and Wind River (for small, quick devices).
"As long as the need for software is high and the complexity of software projects increases, we'll continue to grow, " he says.
The Open Compute Project intends to develop servers and data centers that follow the model traditionally associated with open source software projects.
Atlassian sells online tools for collaborating on and creating big software projects.
The battle for software dollars is so intense in China that researchers rarely work as a team on long-term software projects, Chinese scientists say.
Linux distributions, open source and proprietary software projects will benefit from Linaro's investment, with more stable code becoming widely available as a common base for innovation.
In the 1990s they expanded by doing larger software projects and by taking over whole IT systems and back-office functions such as accounting for U.S. and European corporations.
Citrix, one of the primary cloud vendors, has discontinued contributing software projects to OpenStack, the open-source software foundation for cloud development, of which it had been one of the founding partners.
Over the past year several former Google executives who helped run the company's advertising business, as well as Google product managers and engineers involved in Chrome and Android software projects, joined Facebook.
There are other volunteer software writing projects for the public good out there.
There is a long history of complex methodologies for structuring software-projects.
John Bantleman is CEO of RainStor, which sells database software used for big data projects.
Much of the technology that is commonplace today in manufacturing, advanced materials, software and electronics originated as projects sponsored by the DoD.
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The White House development team drew on feedback from the hackthaon to improve the API and is adding code from its projects to a software development kit (SDK).
Rather than set up websites for specific projects, its software integrates the back-office systems of builders and suppliers, in the same way that modern supermarkets and their suppliers are linked.
Still unfinished over 130 years since construction started, Antoni Gaudi's designs have been given a boost through advanced software more typically used in aeronautical projects.
The aging Wii console sold 3.98 million units in FY 2013 with 50.61 million software units sold, though Nintendo projects these numbers to fall significantly in FY 2014.
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Additionally, not all software development processes are suitable for all projects.
Federal purchases of software and IT consulting and systems integration are likely to experience 5% to 7% decreases, as projects get cancelled or delayed and agencies shift from on-premise licensed software deployments to SaaS offerings with lower initial costs.
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This shift allowed him to serve as chief software engineer but also to take on outside consulting projects.
But unlike those projects, OONI uses only open-source software and plans to make the raw data gathered by its tools public and accessible to any researcher.
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The Silicon Valley company, founded in 2009, officially launched its service in June after spending a few years creating the software and processes for developers to organize and assemble viable projects.
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With some functional similarities to the online data base jointly announced by IBM, Microsoft, and Ariba earlier this month, the Red Hat Network will serve as a central warehouse where developers can register information on their hardware and software systems, enabling other developers to better pursue joint projects.
E-speak could potentially find and assemble software from chunks of code or create teams of engineers for crash projects.
Some security researchers even believe that the CAPTCHA-breaking software was using Tesseract--an open source image recognition software sponsored by Google itself and used in its book-scanning projects--to recognize the distorted characters.
Sensitive projects are cordoned off by keycard access, or even face recognition software.
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This does not mean GigaSpaces will abandon the platform-independent version of its software, but it does mean encouraging new customers--or existing customers launching new projects--to consider Cisco UCS as a platform with significant advantages for grid or cloud-style applications.
Nintendo projects 9 million hardware units sold in FY 2014, with 38 million units of software.
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