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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups

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The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.

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2015 CRN Emerging Vendors List

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July 23, Hortonworks announced that they have been named to The Channel Company’s exclusive 2015 CRN Emerging Vendors List. is industry’s only 100 percent open source Apache Hadoop platform that is built in the open by both Hortonworks and the community. Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) version 2.3

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Google’s VR painting app is getting the axe, but it will live on as an open-source project

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Google is ending development on the virtual reality painting app Tilt Brush — one of the most well-known VR applications — and making it open source. Tilt Brush’s code can be accessed on GitHub now , but Google says some features had to be removed from the open-source release because of licensing restrictions.

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NGA and DigitalGlobe Release Powerful Application To Community Under Open Source License

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January 13, 2015. Sharing the application with the open source community helps accelerate its potential to become the standard for storing, enriching and analyzing massive amounts of raster data in a distributed cloud environment. Analysis Big Data CTO DoD and IC Intelligence Community Open Source Cloud Computing NGA'

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Fed News Roundup 16 July 2015

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Why government needs open source databases - GCN.com GCN (Today) - GCN.comWhy government needs open source databasesGCN.comRecent reports on our economy have been positive, but government agencies are still facing unprecedented financial pressures as a result of the 2008 economic crisis.

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The Radiant Group Acquires HumanGeo to Advance Data Analytics and Open Source Capabilities

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ARLINGTON, VA--(Marketwired - Jul 13, 2015) - The Radiant Group, Inc., Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, and the transaction was completed on July 8, 2015. The post The Radiant Group Acquires HumanGeo to Advance Data Analytics and Open Source Capabilities appeared first on CTOvision.com.

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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

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Average salary: $170,939 Torch Torch is a scientific computing framework, scripting language, and open-source machine learning library based on the Lua programming language — and it’s often used to build and train deep neural networks.