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A new study released by O’Reilly Research shows that there are multiple reasons for the steady rise of open source software. The top six reasons include quality, cost, security, agility, scale, decreased vendor lock-in, and innovation.
Open source software has the ability to decrease vendor lock-in, allowing open source software users to avoid the dramatics of [...]

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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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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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When two friends use similar programs, one open-source, one proprietary, a host of differences arise between the two types. Compared with a hard to reach, unresponsive technical support team, open-source developers are usually passionate and eager to improve the functionality of their work. Free software creators have a vested interest in their products [...]

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