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Must-Have Free Open Source Tools for Freelancers
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| As a freelancer, you don’t have to fork over expensive commercial software:
| there are plenty high-quality open source applications and utilities that can
| help you to run your daily business smoothly. Even if you are new to open
| source, you are probably already familiar with the usual suspects such as
| OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox, and Thunderbird. But there are quite a few
| other useful applications that deserve a place in your freelancer toolbox.
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http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/must-have-free-open-source-tools-for-freelancers.html
Open Source and Cloud Computing Series - Introduction
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| Open Source has played a major role in the progress of Cloud Computing. The
| Open Stack like LAMP are the ones that provide the backbone to many Cloud
| based solutions. Hadoop is transforming the way organizations and companies
| use Cloud. Whether you are an enthusiastic geek trying to set up a Cloud like
| infrastructure at the basement or an enterprise trying to run a private cloud
| inside the firewall, Open Source software like Hadoop and Eucalyptus are
| playing a significant role.
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http://www.cloudave.com/link/open-source-and-cloud-computing-series-introduction
"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox’s store before I did and took
the TV doesn’t mean I can’t go in later and steal the stereo."
--Bill Gates, Microsoft
Recent:
Hadoop: Funny Name, Powerful Software
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| Doug Cutting was a work-at-home dad plugging away at open source search code
| when he had a light-bulb moment that led him to create Hadoop, an open source
| adaptation of Google's MapReduce. Now, Yahoo is using Hadoop for all kinds of
| high-power computing functions.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/65084.html
Related:
Yahoo's Hadoop software transforming the way data is analyzed
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| Cutting, a 44-year-old programmer who had helped build search engines at
| Apple and Excite, had started the search project in 2000 because he wanted
| his code to live on. He knew that closed-source projects, where software is
| treated as a corporate secret, had a way of dying. With open source, the code
| is published and other programmers can contribute suggestions and help fix
| bugs.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10897240?nclick_check=1
OpenSolaris Project: Hadoop Live CD
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| Organizations routinely collect a huge amount of data, including web crawls,
| email messages, and scientific data. Processing these datasets with
| traditional relational database models or streaming algorithms is no longer
| scalable. A new data processing model, MapReduce, addresses this challenge by
| leveraging large clusters of hundreds or thousands of heterogeneous servers.
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http://opensolaris.org/os/project/livehadoop/
Hypertable Lead Discusses Hadoop and Distributed Databases
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| At the time that we started on the project, an open source Bigtable
| implementation did not exist, so we decided to build it ourselves. The reason
| that we chose open source is because we felt that an open source
| implementation of Bigtable would be inevitable. By leading the development
| effort, we would have a leg up on the competition in terms of knowledge,
| expertise, and credibility.
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http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/04/hypertable-interview
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