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Why Open Source Is Really Disrupting Enterprise Software

Forrester IT

I had an epiphany today about a major reason open source is disrupting enterprise software. In the open source model, the code is, well.open source. Cool, talented open source developers don't generally want to work for big, stoggie software vendors. It is not simply just a cost play.

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

CTOvision

MapReduce Geo, or MrGeo , is a geospatial toolkit designed to provide raster-based geospatial capabilities performable at scale by leveraging the power and functionality of cloud-based architecture. Analysis Big Data CTO DoD and IC Intelligence Community Open Source Cloud Computing NGA' Government Solutions.

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My API story: Vodafone's API Architecture Guild

TM Forum

I am part of the Digital, BSS & APIs architecture team in Vodafone, focusing on APIs standardization, strategy, and roadmaps. In my role, I'm currently leading a distributed architecture function called the API Architecture Guild. For example: Creating a Customer, Placing a Product Order, or. Florin Tene, Vodafone.

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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

Having an open-source IVI operating system would create a reusable platform consisting of core services, middleware and open application layer interfaces that eliminate the redundant efforts to create separate proprietary systems. By developing an open-source platform, carmakers can share upgrades as they arrive.

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Four Attributes of Openness in Modern Communications

CTOvision

By Prayson Pate Openness is one of the most-cited advantages of cloud-based applications, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). In this context, what does open really mean? A Beginning of Openness – Documented and Supported. A Milestone – Open Source.

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Get AI in the hands of your employees

CIO Business Intelligence

Restrictions soon lost the battle, and most employees now have open access to the internet. Amazon and Apple, for example, are restricting employee use of ChatGPT, while others, like Ford and Walmart, are giving gen AI tools to their employees, with the goal of sparking employee innovation. We all know how that turned out.

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Hortonworks Named a Leader in Big Data Hadoop Distributions Report

CTOvision

Hortonworks is a rock when it comes to its promise to offer a 100% open source distribution. All of the technology built into HDP is an Apache open source project. For example, Hortonworks acquired XA Secure, a company with a commercially licensed security solution, and contributed the code to Apache as Apache Ranger.

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