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Project Fedena – Opensource Student Information System, School Management...

Fedena is a free & opensource school management software that has more features than a student information system. Use fedena to efficiently manage students, teachers, employees, courses & all...

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Why Union Pacific Builds Its Own Tech – Informationweek

While Tennison jokes that UP isn’t likely to get into the general ledger software business anytime soon, it did develop its own supply chain applications, as the likes of SAP and Oracle couldn’t meet...

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A Generation Lost in the Bazaar – ACM Queue

Getting hooked on computers is easy—almost anybody can make a program work, just as almost anybody can nail two pieces of wood together in a few tries. The trouble is that the market for two pieces of...

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Sears eschews IBM/Oracle for open source and self build

IBM mainframes and Oracle Exadata were two technologies described as too expensive and not flexible enough to adapt to the changes and seasonality of the business. The company is moving to open source...

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How Team Obama’s tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust | Ars Technica

Key in maximizing the value of the Obama campaign’s IT spending was its use of open source tools and open architectures. Linux—particularly Ubuntu—was used as the server operating system of choice....

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GitHub needs to take open source seriously

Brian Doll, GitHub’s VP of Marketing, confirmed this arrangement is intentional: Code without an explicit license is protected by copyright and is by default All Rights Reserved. The person or people...

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Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style – YouTube

Noted Internet thinker and author Clay Shirky delivered one of the opening "provocations" at Supernova 2007. Using a 1300-year-old Japanese shrine as a metaphor, Clay explained how the New Network...

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Mahout, There It Is! Open Source Algorithms Remake Overstock.com | Wired...

The tale highlights the benefit of a blue-sky R&D operation. Overstock was founded in 1999 and went public in 2002, and Byrne — the company’s swashbuckling chief exec — created O Labs about a year...

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InfiniSQL is for high volume data collection, analysis, and transaction...

InfiniSQL is a massively scalable relational database system (RDBMS), composed entirely from scratch (not built upon some other technology). There is reproducible benchmark data described on...

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Who’s Writing Linux?

While volunteer contributors still represent a plurality among developers, over 80 percent of code is contributed by people who are paid for their work. The Linux Foundation notes that contributions...

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