It sells database software which is also available in a free, widely used, open-source version.
When you outstrip the capabilities of the standard software, you just press a button and keep going with the open source version.
As a hobby project in 1999, Dries Buytaert created an open source version of a message board, which he called Drupal.
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.
Skrenta was doing cryptography work for Sun Microsystems some years back when he began working on an open source version of Yahoo, called NewHoo.
This has been a boon to two small browser-makers, Opera, a Norwegian software company, and Mozilla, which developed the Firefox browser based on an open-source version of Netscape.
Zero coincidentally, that same day EMC released an open source version of its data warehousing software, hoping to attract the kind of developers who might otherwise work on R.
In Drupal Gardens, users will be able to press a button and get a source code version of the Drupal code that runs their site along with the data from the database.
Oh, and the battery can't be removed and the version our source used had a 6x4 icon layout and appeared to be running stock Android 2.2 Froyo.
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While one Democratic source said the Senate version could get taken up in the House if Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell or Boehner don't raise a blue-slip objection, Republican sources rejected that scenario.
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The source code for the existing Silent Text version is here and the company tells me that the new Silent Text source code will be released sometime in March or April after confirming legal issues such as licenses for third-party libraries.
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The full version resides at the source below, if you're looking for 51 verbose pages explaining Siri's inner workings.
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Apple obviously writes its own software for the iPhone, but Samsung's phones all run a customized version of Google's open-source Android, and Samsung is so dominant that it could very well split off and start building its own version of Android, just as Amazon did with the Kindle Fire.
Unlike early pioneers SAS and SPSS (now owned by IBM), Revolution Analytics fits the mold of other key new players in the big data world: it supports and sells the commercial version of an open-source product, built and nurtured over many years by a dedicated community of enthusiasts.
In October 2007, Alwaleed ordered a test flight version of the A380: Serial number 002, essentially a second hand plane, which one source said was about 23, 000 pounds heavier than the current version of the plane.
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Separately, another Army division is testing phones running a specialized version of Google's open-source Android software, officials say.
Osom will eventually include "featured" and "Osom'd" ads to make money, so if you want to enjoy the unsullied version while it lasts, hit the source to grab it.
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New features on the newest version should continue the momentum for this open source software upstart.
Teach First, the English version, seems likely to be an equally fruitful source of new-school entrepreneurs.
GitHub is a version control system based on Git, an open source project started by Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
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We also ran our data through a sixth source: Quicken Suite 98, with Quicken Financial Planner (version 3.2a), probably the leading retail do-it-yourself software package in this field, and Quicken Estate Planner, a part of Quicken Family Lawyer.
Head to the source to see the difference between the original designs and the latest version.
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Hit the source link below to download it (Verizon subscribers have their own version) as we wait to see if Brandon Weeden can learn to play quarterback before he turns 30.
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You'll find both the full version and the 14-day trial light edition at the source links if you're looking for an alternative to Google Maps.
The version of his exit, given to me by a senior Barclays source, that Mr Diamond went because of the heat from parliament, is only half the story.
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