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

CTOvision

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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- Microsoft vs Open Source

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

In this environment, it sure is tempting to chuck Microsoft’s Office and web products and their complicated Enterprise and Select Agreements in favor of open source equivalents. And the software for open source is on the web and freely available for such hackers to view! But this developer community is nebulous.

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Analyst One Announces Top Analytical Technologies List

CTOvision

H2O is the open source math & machine learning platform for speed and scale. Alpine’s lightweight web application does this by leveraging the parallel processing power of Hadoop and MPP databases. We list our methodologies at the end of the list. The Analyst One Top Technologies List. Amazon and Microsoft.

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Technology Short Take #48

Scott Lowe

This time around, the content is a bit heavier on cloud management and applications/operating systems, but still lots of good content all the way around (I hope, anyway). Jason Edelman has posted a self-compiled list of networking projects that are open source ; this is a useful list, so thanks for compiling it Jason!

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). When including the cost of software, hardware, and licensing/support, the cost per terabyte (TB) of an MPP system is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars [4]. It may be difficult to determine the exact point at which you should leverage one over the other.

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Expanding the Cloud ? Introducing AWS Marketplace - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Marketplace has software listings from well-known vendors including 10gen, CA, Canonical, Couchbase, Check Point Software, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Zend, and others, as well as many widely used open source offerings including Wordpress, Drupal, and MediaWiki. The way businesses are buying applications is changing.

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The Sovrin SSI Stack

Phil Windley

Summary: The Sovrin Identity Metasystem is based on a sophisticated stack of protocols, implemented in open-source code, backed and supported by hundreds of organizations, large and small, around the world. So, barring a coding problem that opens a security hole, there is no honey pot of information in an agency.