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As the Open Source software movement continues the strengthen, questions abound about where the opportunities to create commercially viable solutions. Red Hat did it with Linux. Can Cloudera do it with Hadoop? Read this GigaOm article.
Check out this Techcrunch article highlighting Myspace’s new recommendation system, Qizmt. It’s built on a mapreduce framework.
NoSQL is about open source, distributed, non-relational databases. At a recent meetup in San Francisco, some of the following new technologies were discussed…
Voldemort
Cassandra
Dynomite
HBase
Hypertable
CouchDB
Here’s a ComputerWorld article with more info.
Axiis is a new open source visualization tool built in Flex.
Here’s a full overview written by the developer about visualizations using Circos. Use Circos to create concise, explanatory, unique and print-ready visualizations of your data.
As budgets tighten and solution choices expand many companies are starting to consider open source solutions to things like CRM, productivity software and more. Here’s a list from John Perez of 25 alternatives to enterprise software.
