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  • Open-Source Social Networking Project Launched by Defense Contractor - Application Development
    The nation's largest defense contractor, Lockheed Martin, launches Eureka Streams, a new open-source project for enterprise social networking.
  • Open source HPC file system gets startup
    Wham, cloud with Lustre High performance computing – by which is meant traditional parallel supercomputing as well as data analytics and hyperscale cloudy infrastructure – is facing a looming file system and storage bottleneck, and Whamcloud, a startup backed by $10m in private funding and some of the top people behind the Lustre file system, want to help.…
  • Open source web apps often insecure, new tool discovers
    Security company Qualys has released a new open source tool, BlindElephant, which can accurately fingerprint web applications down to version level in order to better manage the security issues which now plague such software.
  • Open source faces hurdles in the cloud
    It may not be efficient to open-source some cloud functions, and large vendors will 'dominate' cloud computing in 2020, according to Mimecast's Nathaniel Borenstein
  • Could Open Source Render Facebook the Next AOL?
    joabj writes "Now that Facebook has amassed more than 500 million users, a growing number of open source social networking developers are wondering if Facebook's photo sharing, status updates and other features wouldn't work better as Internet-wide standardized services. At the OSCON conference last week, the head of Identi.ca, an open source Twitter-like microblogging service, likened today's ...
  • Black Hat 2010: Open source tool finds web applications
    Security firm Qualys has launched an open source, web-application fingerprinting engine to identify application and plug-in versions.

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: I didn't know it, but #Google are big users of #R http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/07/notes-from-user-2010.html