Open Source Nonprofit Software

A prominent research firm, IDC, has declared the development of open-source software is one of the most important long-term trends in the software industry in the last twenty years.  In research done by the firm, 71% of developers worldwide use open-source software.  About half of respondents, which totaled 5,000, currently utilize open-source software in the [...]

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Adobe, a large, established company, recently adopted an open-source strategy.  Some people consider this a controversial change because releasing software’s code into the community allows any trade secrets or special company tricks to be immediately discovered.
However, several advantages exist for large corporations.  First of all, the market demand for open-source is increasing.  Additionally, development costs [...]

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Oxford Archaeology, one of Britain’s largest excavation firms, has two main goals.  The firm seeks to find and preserve historical artifacts and educate the public on archaeology and history.  The cost-conscious nonprofit company chose to use open-source software to run the main bulk of their operations, from capturing and storing data to everyday business functions.  [...]

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Open-source software is commonly used in company infrastructure, including web servers and databases.  However, the software is not frequently used in the network that connects all the intricate pieces.  Networks generally involve routers and firewalls, places where open-source software has not been commonly used.
Several open-sourced routing programs have been created recently, most notably Vyatta.  These [...]

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IBM’s Roadrunner supercomputer, designed and built for the US Department of Energy, is, according to tests, the fastest and most powerful computer in the world. Located at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, Roadrunner has a top processing speed of 1.6 teraflops (1 teraflop is equivalent to 1 quadrillion calculations per second).
For open [...]

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