crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 1, 2011

Since 2005, Google has led a wonderful open source program called Summer of Code. The goal of that program is to promote open source software development. Google has run this program every year since 2005, and the results are stunning. Related posts: Google Crowdsourcing Investments.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

Software was expensive. As Kraus noticed in 2005, however, things were starting to change. ” By 2005, however, “Free, open source infrastructure [was] the norm,” with the ability to “get it anytime and anywhere.” ” Developers Don’t Get Cheaper. Storage was expensive.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

A second example that is more esoteric but perhaps a leading indicator, is the rise of continuous integration in software development, not just with one’s own development team but with third-party software and tools. Several times a year, I hear about a new service that is all the rage with teens and tweens.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

I was more open to it becoming a real company, but I never really expected it to be a real company from the beginning. We were on an immersion trip to Silicon Valley, and we said, “Let’s find a way to leverage [a previous open source project],” and we decided to build something around that.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

One of the hottest trends in tech right now is NoSQL (If you’re a software developer get acquainted with it). The lack of stable logging in Java shows the price of open source -innovation in parallel- with the price of one vendor not being able to say “this is the logging API, be grateful&# , the way MS can do in.NET land.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

One of the hottest trends in tech right now is NoSQL (If you’re a software developer get acquainted with it). The lack of stable logging in Java shows the price of open source -innovation in parallel- with the price of one vendor not being able to say “this is the logging API, be grateful&# , the way MS can do in.NET land.

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

You would have to spend millions of dollars hiring software developers, renting real estate, buying hardware, etc. Some of the big ones are open source , cloud computing and virtual office infrastructure. Until relatively recently, the capital requirements of technology businesses were quite large.

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