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Study: Open Source Delivers Superior Quality... Up To A Point

Study: Open Source Delivers Superior Quality... Up To A Point | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
A new report from Coverity suggests that open source delivers higher quality software, so long as the project is relatively small.
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Edubuntu - the Free and Open Source Software Liberian Educators and Policy ... - AllAfrica.com

Edubuntu - the Free and Open Source Software Liberian Educators and Policy ... - AllAfrica.com | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Ostensibly, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have significantly permeated our society, yet their integration in our educational system has not been achieved.
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Open source is starting to make a dent in proprietary software fortunes - TechRepublic

Open source is starting to make a dent in proprietary software fortunes - TechRepublic | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Open source has promised to unseat proprietary competitors for decades, but the cloud may make the threat real.
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Is OpenStreetMap the next Linux or OpenOffice? - TechRepublic

Is OpenStreetMap the next Linux or OpenOffice? - TechRepublic | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it


All of which means that OpenStreetMap, a community-driven alternative to commercial mapping products like Google Maps, could be one of the most exciting open-source projects ever.

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Samsung's "Voice of the Body" is an open hardware and software platform for personal health monitoring

Samsung's "Voice of the Body" is an open hardware and software platform for personal health monitoring | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

What if your body had a voice? That was the premise that was asked, and would anchor the presentation Samsung provided in San Francisco on Wednesday. The context was mean to dovetail on today’s wearable devices and where Samsung wants to focus development.

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How Facebook Compresses Its 300 PB Data Warehouse - EnterpriseTech

How Facebook Compresses Its 300 PB Data Warehouse - EnterpriseTech | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

When you have a 300 PB data warehouse running atop Hadoop, you do everything in your power to keep from adding another rack of disk drives to this beast. While social network giant Facebook is not afraid to throw a lot of hardware at a scalability problem, its software engineers are always looking for ways to make the infrastructure software that underpins Facebook more efficient and therefore require less hardware to get more capacity and performance.

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The Trend To "Open Source" Software And What It Means For Businesses And ... - Forbes

The Trend To "Open Source" Software And What It Means For Businesses And ... - Forbes | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Wikipedia defines “open-source” software as computer software with its source code made available and licensed with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. Translated into English this just means it’s free to anyone who wants to download it.  Linux, Mozilla Firefox, and Google’s Android are open source operating systems and are available and easy to download even for computer illiterates like myself.


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Amazon CTO: Open Source Software Helps Startups Focus on Innovation - The Next Web

Amazon CTO: Open Source Software Helps Startups Focus on Innovation - The Next Web | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels has said that the use of open source software and the immediate availability of scaleable cloud technology underpins the innovation now being seen in tech startups.

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Open software is not free: Red Hat - IDG News Service

Open source is a development model and not a support one that does bug fixing, according to Red Hat global CEO and president, Jim Whitehurst.

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Italian military to switch to LibreOffice and ODF | Joinup

The Italian military is transitioning to LibreOffice and the Open Document Format (ODF). The Ministry of Defense will over the next year-and-a-half install this suite of office productivity tools on some 150,000 PC workstations - making it Europe’s second largest LibreOffice implementation. The switch was announced on 15 September by the LibreItalia Association.


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Business Models for Free and Open Source Software by Chitu Okoli, Johannes Nguyen :: SSRN

Business Models for Free and Open Source Software by Chitu Okoli, Johannes Nguyen :: SSRN | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
This study determines the key stakeholders, goals and existing business models for free and open source software (FOSS) by focusing on three major research ques
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Autodesk unveils open software platform for 3D printing

Autodesk unveils open software platform for 3D printing | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Mumbai: Design solutions major Autodesk has unveiled Spark, its latest innovation for 3D printing technology and amplifying its adoption in industry. Spark is an open software platform for 3D printing, which aims to make the process more reliable, simpler and easier to control, it said.

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ENTERPRISE HARDWARE Autodesk Unveils Open Software Platform for 3D ... - CIO Today

ENTERPRISE HARDWARE Autodesk Unveils Open Software Platform for 3D ... - CIO Today | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

There's a new open software  platform for 3D printing -- and a 3D printer -- from Autodesk. Given the company's position as a maker of modeling and design software, the platform could boost the nascent industry of object-printing.


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Autodesk unveils Spark, an open software 3D-printing platform ...

Autodesk unveils Spark, an open software 3D-printing platform ... | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Autodesk, best known for software that help people design in 3D, has unveiled a new open software platform for 3D printing called Spark, along with a 3D printer to showcase the software.

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Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Fueling growth in the local economy? - Open Your City

Ever since free software policies boomed at the beginning of the 21st century, one of the familiar mantras spelled out by any representative, while listing the benefits of promoting FOSS is the expected ability to foster the local economy.
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Free and open source software key for multicore hardware - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

Free and open source software key for multicore hardware - Scoop.co.nz (press release) | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Free and open source software will almost undoubtedly be the way to manage hugely powerful multicore computers says Nicolas Erdody.

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Software takes advantage of collective intelligence to improve decision-making

Software takes advantage of collective intelligence to improve decision-making | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Researchers at the Experimental Economics Laboratory in the Universitat Jaume I, coordinated by the lecturer Gerardo Sabater from the Area of Foundations of Economic Analysis, have developed the first Spanish software that leverages the collective intelligence of employees and customers to improve decision-making in the company. The Agora Market platform can implement prediction markets in an enterprise as a tool for improving the efficiency of internal information management and strategic decision-making.

 



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Breaking Silos between Software Developers and Other Disciplines - BangkokStartup.com

Breaking Silos between Software Developers and Other Disciplines - BangkokStartup.com | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Breaking down silos is fundamental for Startups to embrace a more multi-disciplinary approach to software development that helps achieve the above outcomes.
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