When it comes to opening up your work there is, ironically, a bit of a secret. Here it is: being open-in open science, open source software, or any other open community-can be hard. Source: Tech
Tag: open source software
Helping African hospitals with open source software
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The daily management and operation of a hospital requires enormous effort. These days, most hospitals utilize Enterprise Resource Planning software to centralize facility operations including inventory, budgets, invoicing, and employee management. Source: Tech
Why Hortonworks' Hadoop Pitch May Be Perfect
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Hortonworks business strategy certainly has its naysayers. They claim the venture capital backed company won’t be able to generate the kind of revenues Wall Street investors expect without selling proprietary software that compliments or extends open source Apache Hadoop or any other open source software, for that matter. Source: Tech
Texas Instruments Launches Internet of Things Ecosystem
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Texas Instruments introduces an Internet of Things ecosystem for cloud providers and ARM and Sensor Platforms team to launch open source software for sensor hubs. Source: Tech
Councils stage open source revival
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Local councils behind an ambitious public open source software scheme that flourished briefly with boom-time investment under the last government are attempting to revive it under the cost-cutting coalition’s digital strategy. Source: Tech
EU institutions accused of doing nothing to free themselves from dependence on Microsoft
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The Commission should set an example on Document Freedom Day, lobby groups for open standards and open source software said The European Commission and European Parliament are doing nothing to rid themselves of their dependance on Microsoft, two lobby groups said Wednesday, Document Freedom Day. Source: Tech
Pursuing adoption of free and open source software in governments
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Free and open source software creates a natural – and even necessary – fit with government. Source: Tech
Ministry of Communication adopts open source software strategy
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“FOSS is software whose underlying programming source code is freely available to access, modify and distribute,” the strategy document published by the ministry said. Source: Tech
May Open Source Be With You
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My introduction to open source software began when I was sitting on a server room floor, with my head in my hands, completely frustrated with a Windows 2000 server. Every night there were some services that would crash. Every morning I would get yelled at by my over-bearing boss. I was new to the company,…
Italy is latest to promote open source software in public procurements
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In December, the Italian government issued final rules implementing a change to procurement law that now requires all public administrations in the country to first consider re-used or free software before committing to proprietary licenses. Source: Tech