In this column, I would like to introduce you to one of the most important open science-related projects I’ve ever found. Source: Tech
Day: December 18, 2013
Case Study: Making Money in a Cashless Economy
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•The world is going cashless – and USA Technologies will be there when it does. Their Knowledge Base Study shows an average 84% increase in cashless transactions sales at their secure cashless and wireless unattended POS terminals. read more Source: Open Source
Here's how desperate some IT people are to avoid Windows 8
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•Microsoft knows that it has some work to do to make its desktop users happier with Windows 8 . Source: Tech
Google to co-head open-source patent defense alliance
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•The Open Invention Network , a consortium of major technology companies formed in 2005 to minimize patent-aggression against free and open-source software projects, plans to announce today that Google has become its seventh full member. Source: Tech
Selecting Cloud Security Brokers: 'All-in-One' or 'Best-of-Breed'?
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•When we set out to build the PerspecSys Cloud Data Control Gateway, we faced an important design decision: would the market prefer an “All-in-One” or a “Best-of-Breed” Cloud Security Broker? In the “All-in-One” camp, IT professionals have come to learn that the bundled modules from a single vendor have significant gaps in features that frequently…
Take the 2013 Puppet Labs DevOps Survey and Win Cool Prizes
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•This is a guest post by Nigel Kersten, Puppet Labs Last year we partnered with Gene KimJez Humble to survey over 4,000 technical professionals across a wide range of businesses to better understand how the collection of practices we call DevOps had evolved since the label was first coined by Patrick Debois in 2009. This year, we’re pleased to…
Curoverse Raises $1.5 Million to Build Open Source Platform for Genomic and Biomedical Big Data
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•Arvados is a computational storage platform designed for the biomedical industry. Source: Tech
Open Source Spat: OpenBSD versus FreeBSD
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•What happens when people, who are supposed to advocate openness and collaboration among developers, start to snipe at each other’s ability to deliver the goods? It’s like the Peloponnesian War without the hunky warriors, action, and historic relevance. Source: Tech
Switch to open source successfully completed, city of Munich says
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•The Standards News Portal is updated on a daily basis to bring you the most important news about standards – how they are created, how they affect you – and who’s doing what to whom. Source: Tech