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7 Myths About Open Sourcing Your Company's Software - The Real Story
Many companies benefit from open source, and countless companies have opted to open source components of their infrastructure (or even their bread and butter) in an effort to give back. However, there are a lot of misconceptions about what happens when you open up your business' code and workflows to the public, and as companies delve into how to apply open principles within their organization, it's easy to get lost in the weeds. Here are some common misconceptions about what happens when you open source your code...
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BayCare Launches New Mobile Application for Patient Discharge Instructions
To make it easier for hospital patients to transition back to their home environment, BayCare Health System is launching an application that allows people to receive discharge instructions on their mobile devices. Utilizing the cell phone number provided during patient registration, this new application securely delivers and confirms receipt of electronic discharge instructions so patients can see things like prescribed medications, diet, activity and recommended follow-up appointments. Meanwhile, BayCare providers can rest assured that this information can go anywhere their patients do.
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Governance, Control, and How to Actually Influence an Open Source Project
A lot of groups fret about the governance and control of open source projects. Others tout their open, diversified, wide-ranging, and independent foundations as making them superior. People--and companies--tend to be worried about making sure that they retain some type of influence over the future of an open source project that they are interested in. Read More »
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HPC Research Custer Get Red Hat OpenStack Private Cloud
EMedLab, a partnership of seven research and academic institutions, has built a private cloud 5.5PB high-performance computing (HPC) cluster with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack using Cinder block storage and IBM’s Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS) parallel file system. The organisation rejected use of object storage – an emerging choice for very large capacity research data use cases – and also rejected use of the public cloud because of concerns over control and security of data...
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Think Like Linux, Act Like UPS, Smile Like Amazon: Toward Open Source Logistics
What does one do when quality, quantity, and complexity collide? For that is the conundrum of large enterprises facing the vast resources available in the world of open source software (OSS). GitHub, the largest online code-hosting site, lists 10.2 million repositories, and Black Duck, the company for which I work, tracks 30 billion lines of open source code. Read More »
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Why Use Open Source Software?
Almost everyday, someone within the open source community is talking about how folks should be using open source software. I completely agree with this point of view. To further dive into the issue, I'll share my opinion as to why using open source software offers significant advantages over proprietary alternatives. Did you know that most people run their software because it allows them to accomplish a specific task, not because it runs on a particular operating system? While mobile users may be die-hard fans of their chosen platforms, when it comes to the desktop most people simply use what is familiar to them...
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