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Russia Weighs Replacing IBM, Microsoft With Open-Source Software

Data Center Knowledge

Duma is drafting a bill to restrict government agencies from buying licensed software, giving preference to open-source software. Read More.

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NSA Releases A New Technology to Open Source Community

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Here is their press release : NSA Releases First in Series of Software Products to Open Source Community. The software is “open source,” which means its code is available to the public – in this case, through the Apache Software Foundation. New technology automates high-volume data flows. economic growth.”

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

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For those readers who may not be very familiar with how government works, let me assure you, this is a really big deal. -bg. Government Solutions. Analysis Big Data CTO DoD and IC Intelligence Community Open Source Cloud Computing NGA' January 13, 2015. MrGeo is available at: https://github.com/ngageoint/mrgeo.

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After Log4j, Open-Source Software Is Now a National Security Issue

Gizmodo

For years, developers of free, open-source software have been telling anyone who will listen that their projects needs better financial assistance and more oversight. Now, after a number of disastrous incidents involving open-source code, the federal government and Silicon Valley may finally be listening.

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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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Enhancing Government Efficiency: Kinetic Data’s Role in Modernization through Webform-to-PDF Conversion

KineticData

At Kinetic Data, we’re keenly aware of the federal government’s commitment to modernization and digitization, a mission we actively support through our work with various agencies. One of the biggest challenges in this process was finding open-source libraries that met our needs with Java and Ruby.

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Hortonworks Named a Leader in Big Data Hadoop Distributions Report

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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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