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May 25th, 2010 
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It’s always great to see open source principles applied to helping under-developed countries or nations in crisis. We’ve already talked about washing machines with an open design and software created to help reunite families after large-scale emergencies . Now a Florida-based engineer has come up with an open source design to help feed the hungry.
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The Open Source Approach to Feeding the Hungry
May 24th, 2010 Admin
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With the recent trend toward its adoption in a wide variety of companies, business intelligence (BI) software is no longer the enigma it once was. Jaspersoft is one of the BI vendors we regularly cover here at OStatic, on part because of its strong open source business model. We recently caught up with Jaspersoft’s President and CEO, Brian Gentile , to get a reading on what’s going on in the BI niche and where open source software fits into the mix
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Interview: Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile on the Role of Open Source in Business Intelligence
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Tags: Architecture, brian-gentile, business intelligence, embraces-hadoop, intelligence, jaspersoft, Market, Network, open-source, research, survey, tools, unique 
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Pentaho, which specializes in open source business intelligence (BI) applications, today announced far-reaching integration plans involving its platform and Apache Hadoop. As we’ve noted before , business intelligence software is on the rise, with numerous other open source players in the space, including Jaspersoft, Actuate, and others
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Business Intelligence Player Pentaho Embraces Hadoop
May 21st, 2010 Admin
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As we reported yesterday when discussing the new open source Qbo robot, it joins a growing field of increasingly capable robots that run on free, open source platforms. In Qbo’s case, Linux is the underlying platform, and an open source software stack sits on top of it. The fact that both the operating system and software stack on top of it are free means that substantial costs in producing Qbo robots are driven out of the equation
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Microsoft, Focused On Robotics, Goes With A Free Model
Posted in Open Source News Tags: based-on-open, focused-on-open, growing-field, icub, linux, microsoft, open-source, robotics, source, source-robots, still-kicking, willow-garage No Comments » May 21st, 2010 Admin
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The Open Knowledge Foundation has put the wrapper on CKAN 1.0 after three years of development . Nicknamed the “Debian of Data,” the CKAN software is behind the foundation’s CKAN.net and nearly 1,000 packages of open data and content.
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CKAN Goes Gold: Open Data for All
Posted in Open Source News Tags: api, archive-network, caught-on-quite, ckan, Communications, Data, knowledge, making-it-easy, open-source, Package., python, wrapper-on-ckan No Comments »
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