Matrix brought in Michael Doyle, who formerly headed Medsphere, an open source-based electronic health record.
But adoption of open source software does not necessarily mean adoption of open source-based big data technologies.
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Drupal is one of several open source-based frameworks for creating web sites.
In addition, it is arriving at a time in which some of the traditional advantages of open source-based business models have eroded because of cloud computing and other developments.
OpenGamma, a startup which has so far received two rounds of funding from Accel Partners and FirstMark Capital, is creating a open-source-based platform for trading and risk analytics software to support front office applications.
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Luckily, the open-source and Web-based alternatives are cheaper and, more importantly, more convenient for small businesses.
The open-source, Linux-based service has the potential to shake up the wireless industry when it hits phones later this year.
The main objectives of the two-day consultation meeting that was held from 15 to 16 May 2006 were to present and discuss a proposal prepared by BIREME for the development of a new open source network-based ISIS project, and to initiate the formulation of a partnership strategy.
The company hopes to entice enterprise network managers to use more open source applications by offering professional-level support for open source systems, beyond Internet-based user groups and the open source community.
Enter Spark, a seven-inch slate that comes running the Plasma Active UX, an open-source OS based on Linux kernel, KDE's multi-platform Plasma environment and a dash of Qt for good measure.
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WordPress and MoveableType offer the same sort of escape hatch in their open-source based products.
Waiting in the wings are any number of open-source smartphones based on the nifty Linux operating system.
Hadoop is open source, Java-based software running on racks of commodity servers that are wired together using a standard, low cost 1 Gb Ethernet fabric.
Because the kilowatt-hours used by cars ultimately come from some carbon-based source (power plant or otherwise), the calculation converts kilowatt-hours to equivalent gallons of gasoline consumed.
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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.
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).
Adherence to direct, source- and sink-based, current-period accounting provides a robust framework for handling emissions from fuels regardless of their origin.
This allowed us to track the source of non-web based campaigns.
Companies like Spike Source and SourceLabs tried to put together subscription-based models for productizing the open source stack.
Such solutions are clearly some way off commercial development, but with Apple rumored to be designing its hotly-anticipated iWatch around a power source based on kinetic and solar power, a battery-free world isn't such a distant dream.
Hong Kong-based Techno Source debuted Tetris Link this week at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
Hadoop is neither a community-based open source project like Linux or Drupal nor a commercial open core company like Alfresco, or JBoss.
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.
All that's needed, apparently, is an energy source, some sort of carbon-based material and a bit of water.
At the same time Samsung has always harbored ambitions to own its own OS, initially with Bada but now in partnership with Intel on the Linux-based, open source Tizen project.
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The writer, Monica Gaudio, was alerted by a friend that her piece on the origins of apple pie, written for a website on medieval recipes, had been reprinted, sans permission, in Cooks Source, a small-scale publication based in New England.
And he sees a potential to be a second-source for WiFi chips on Broadcom based devices.
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He wishes that the company had gone to market from the outset as a cloud-based solution, rather than taking a detour through open-source.
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Android operating system, which is used with an array of device makers and is based on open-source software, so it can be more vulnerable to security breaches.
Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) and Matsushita, both of Japan, said the operating system will be based on open-source Linux and will be available in March.
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