But Soni is looking for companies that develop open source applications and databases.
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.
Red Hat hopes its support of multiple open source applications running on Linux will make the platform more attractive to corporate network managers looking for cheaper alternatives to commercial server operating systems.
The MySQL deal, which is slated to close in the first half of 2008, is a sign that Sun is pushing into more open-source software applications and could even enter the Linux market, the terrain of companies like Red Hat.
Totzke advises all smartphone users to enable a password, quickly download security updates from their phones operator system and carefully consider the source of any applications they download.
In addition, open source operating systems, applications and third-party tools are already in development.
While some of the deployed protocols are in the public domain, the source code for particular applications have not been released yet making it difficult for security researchers to render an informed opinion on its implementation.
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Pahlka started her project thinking it might be useful if government tapped open source developers to create better applications.
Users will experience a redesigned user interface with full user profile control that intelligently detects the power source and GPU, allowing applications to scale seamlessly.
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This will allow us to transition from simple to more complex tasks that may require accessing a variety of applications and information source in a coordinated workflow.
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The resulting open-source hardware platforms bridge desktop and embedded development, allowing developers to design to their specification and collaborate with the open source community on creative new applications.
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The phone promises to fuse open-source software with Google's applications on a high-end handset.
So enterprises need to source a whole range of new applications which is a huge change for the business.
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Every element of the XO's software is open-source and malleable: Its creators hope that kids in Mongolia and Peru will someday program their own applications for the devices and even modify its source code to improve its operating system.
The company just announced Cloud Foundry, an open source system in which developers can build applications for cloud computing, without having to work in specific underlying technologies.
Applications are also a growing source of revenue beyond advertising for Facebook itself, which sells its own virtual currency that can be used to pay for games.
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Android is open source software, which means developers who don't work for Google are allowed to see the source code and create a range of applications to work with it.
Jailbreaking allows applications not approved by Apple to be downloaded from any source, and it removes the security controls which prevent access to data on the device by unauthorized people and applications.
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By contributing this innovation, HP unleashes the creativity of the open source community to advance a new generation of applications and devices.
Chris Messina pointed out that people seeking to create their own activity stream applications could benefit from another open source project, status.net, that has implemented a protocol called OStatus that incorporates the activity stream formats.
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Black Duck's main offering, protexIP (IP, as in "intellectual property"), contains a library of open-source programs that software writers frequently incorporate into larger applications.
Hack-happy geeks take note, Puzzlebox encourages your creative tinkering, so it's made the software open source, opening the door to any number of applications.
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This inexpensive solution paves the way for an entirely new generation of middleware software and applications to be developed in an open source environment.
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On the other hand, a small group of Samsung engineers has been working on medical applications of eye tracking, using open source code from Eyecan and the Not Impossible Foundation.
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The biggest way that open source touches each of us is through web-based applications.
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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As some companies may fear releasing customized applications, Sun also offers a secondary license called Sun Industry Standard Source License.
"LEDs are the most efficient light source currently available, and are increasingly used in domestic, commercial and automotive applications, " said Mr Russill.
As a company designs a mobile web site and related applications, it should seize this opportunity to define a unified data source.
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