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Coopetition: All's Fair in Love and Open Source
PostgreSQL vs. MySQL. MongoDB vs. Cassandra. Solr vs. Elasticsearch. ReactJS vs. AngularJS. If you have an open source project that you are passionate about, chances are a competing project exists and is doing similar things, with users as passionate as yours. Despite the "we're all happily sharing our code" vibe that many individuals in open source love to project, open source business, like any other, is filled with competition. Unlike other business models, however, open source presents unique challenges and opportunities when it comes to competition...
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Couchbase and the Future of NoSQL Databases
Couchbase is a NoSQL, document-oriented database for building interactive applications. Trends in the open source database industry show positive growth as NoSQL is used for web, mobile, and the Internet of Things (IoT). In this interview, Arun Gupta, VP of Developer Advocacy at Couchbase, shares his views on how open source has made an impact on the database industry, and the challenges that lie ahead for the NoSQL industry. Also, find out which open source tools and methodologies Couchbase has adopted...
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DARPA Offers Free Watson-Like Artificial Intelligence
If you wonder what the government has done for you lately, take a look at DeepDive. DeepDive is a free version of IBM's Watson developed in the same Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), but now available free and open-source...
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Don't Believe the Hype, AGPL Open Source Licensing Is Toxic and Unpopular
Reading Black Duck Software's newest paean to the Affero General Public License (AGPL) ("The Quietly Accelerating Adoption of the AGPL"), one could be forgiven for thinking AGPL is rocking the open source licensing planet. After all, Black Duck executive Phil Odence laced his post with fancy charts showing explosive growth of the license, ultimately declaring the AGPL "very popular," and a license his firm sees frequently in audits. Maybe, maybe not...
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Eclipse Foundation Announces Release Of Hudson 3.0
The Eclipse Foundation today announced the release of Hudson 3.0. Used around the world with more than 30,000 installations, Hudson is a continuous integration (CI) server used to significantly improve the software development process. Read More »
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EnterpriseDB Joins Coalition for Enterprise Open Source Software for Government
EnterpriseDB (EDB), the leading provider of enterprise-class Postgres products and database compatibility solutions, today announced it has joined the Coalition for Enterprise Open Source Software for Government (CEOSSG) to increase federal agency awareness of enterprise open source products and the need for greater adoption of open source software (OSS) across the federal sector. The CEOSSG is a non-profit member organization founded by Red Hat and Carahsoft Technology Corp., with government relations support provided by Efrus Federal Advisors...
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ForgeRock Grabs $15M to push Access & Identity Management Software
Formed after the Oracle bought Sun, ForgeRock has emerged as a contender in the access and identity management space, and it seeks more consumer-facing deployments. Read More »
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Government Taps Engineers From Google, Red Hat To Fix Healthcare.gov
The government has tapped engineers at Google, Oracle, and Red Hat, among other companies, to assist in untangling the problems with its online health insurance marketplace. The site, a key part of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform effort, has numerous bugs that have prevented Americans from signing up for health insurance...
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Guardtime Secures Over a Million Estonian Healthcare Records on the Blockchain
Guardtime, a cyber-security provider that uses blockchain systems to ensure the integrity of data, is partnering with the Estonian e-Health Authority to secure over a million health care records. Guardtime uses Keyless Signature Infrastructure (KSI), a blockchain technology that provides massive-scale data authentication without reliance on centralised trust authorities. Unlike traditional approaches that depend on asymmetric key cryptography, KSI uses only hash-function cryptography, allowing verification to rely only on the security of hash functions and the availability of a public ledger...
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Hospitals Remain Underinvested in Costing Technologies, Black Book ERP Survey Results
An inert healthcare enterprise resource planning software sector grew less than 2 percent in 2015 as hospitals turned available technology funding to conflicting priorities such as ICD 10 conversions, cybersecurity, population health and analytics, with less than 29 percent of all US hospitals having implemented any ERP product. As provider executives face compounding value-based risk decisions, recent interest in ERP has climbed sharply according to a recent Black Book survey of 1,158 health system procurement and technology leaders in the fourth quarter of 2016....
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How New OSS Communities And Code Bases Are Developed From Old Ones
Open source software developers modify significant amounts of source code for a variety of different reasons. Depending on the amount of modification, the number of developers doing the fragmentation (sometimes called a “fork” in the code), the status of these developers in the community, and the intention of the development community, the results could be just a few lines of updated code, or it could be a complete fork of the code base that takes the open source project in an entirely new direction. Read More »
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In The Cloud, It's Amazon Vs. The Rest
VMware (VMW) is just the latest company to join the OpenStack Foundation, an effort to build an open source cloud stack from parts first developed by NASA, then Rackspace (RAX), and now being implemented at the latter. Read More »
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Inflexible Contracts Only Increase Public Sector Open Source Potential
Proprietary suppliers on “thin ice” with inflexible contracts, but open source counterparts must embrace cost honesty, writes Hampshire County Council CIO Jos Creese-The debate about the pros and cons of open source over proprietary software is certainly not a new one, and evangelists and vendors alike have strong and coherent arguments on both sides...
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Inside OpenSSL's Battle to Change its License: Coders' Rights, Tech Giants, Patents and More
The OpenSSL project, possibly the most widely used open-source cryptographic software, has a license to kill – specifically its own. But its effort to obtain permission to rewrite contributors' rights runs the risk of alienating the community that sustains it. The software is licensed under the OpenSSL License, which includes its own terms and those dating back to the preceding SSLeay license...
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Issa Demands Details On HealthCare.gov Fix
A top House Republican critic of the Obama administration’s rocky HealthCare.gov rollout wants more information about how the government plans to fix the glitch-ridden online insurance exchange. Read More »
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