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- 22 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted
Free and Open Source Software, a joint project by the Linux Foundation and LISH released in 2022, and BuiltWith, a service that scans almost 9 million company websites to understand how they’re built, including what open source code they...
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- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods, published in the journal Organization Science, Nagle interviewed technology professionals and examined data from the Linux Foundation on...
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- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
numerous pieces of critical infrastructure. But without appropriate investment and maintenance, that widespread adoption has the potential to become a liability. A preliminary study released February 18, which we directed alongside the View Details
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Frank Nagle: Received a GitHub Research Grant in 2022. Frank Nagle: Received a Linux Foundation Core Infrastructure Initiative Grant with Karim Lakhani in 2022. Maria P. Roche: Winner of the 2022 Strategy Science Conference Best Paper...
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
of Free and Open Source Software – Application Libraries, Report, The Linux Foundation Core Infrastructure Initiative, 2022. With James Dana, Jennifer Hoffman, Steven Randazzo, and Yanuo Zhou. The Problem of Social Benefit, Stanford...
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- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
Model-Linker to the open source community to help the Linux community write software to connect Linux with Hewlett-Packard's RISC computer architecture. This strategy is similar to giving away the razor (the...
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- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
sudden dramatic failure and more a story of ongoing competition at the platform level. The presence of competing platforms like Linux requires that Microsoft continue to invest in its IP base and integrate new innovations into its own...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Software Tools - Research Computing Services
version stability) MATLAB, Mathematica, StatTransfer, OpenOffice (Excel-like program), as well as other software titles that are a standard part of the Linux OS and GUI environment (RHEL v7 and Gnome v3). To get started, either select the...
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- 11 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies
jumped on the bandwagon to some extent. It's partnered with Novell to put some of Microsoft's technologies on Linux and other open platforms. The Mono project consists of porting the .NET framework onto Linux, and the Moonlight project is...
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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services
paraphrased from the LSF page): num= (default =1): The number of GPUs to request. Note that after your job is dispatched, no matter which GPU one is allocated, the GPUs will be indexed starting from 0. And for security purposes, we are enforcing GPU sandboxing via...
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- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
market leadership position? "We believe that there is still a great deal of confusion and puzzlement on how this competitive battle will develop," say the authors of the academic paper Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by View Details
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
"For IBM, Linux is the razor, and WebSphere software and its related services are the razor blade," he says. "The question of how you invest and extract money becomes much more interesting when you consider the different...
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Database Server - Research Computing Services
and opportunities, and making research data management as less complex task. RCS hosts a database server running MariaDB v10.3, an open source fork of MySQL, to help meet these growing needs. Our MariaDB server is a Red Hat 6.5 Linux...
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Configuration Files Recommended for Connecting - Research Computing Services
substitute jharvard and PASSWORD with your MariaDB username and password. For the other parameters such as HOSTNAME, please contact us at research@hbs.edu. Once your .my.cnf is ready, move it your home directory and adjust file privileges to ensure no one else can read...
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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services
popular platform provides automatic text captioning of the audio uploaded onto YouTube. Watson speech-to-text API: a machine learning API that can transcribe audio files into text, among other capabilities. VLC player: a free, open source media player that can be used...
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- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409017 Linux vs. Windows Harvard Business School Case 707-465 As of 2006, Microsoft is finding that its dominant position in client and server operating...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
invests significant resources in software such as Java and Linux that IBM does not own in order to integrate many companies' products and services for IBM's customers. Intel invests significant resources in university research (which it...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
fragmented market ..." Citing the popularity of Linux at the server level, Eckel points out that "what that 800 lb. Gorilla (MS) is fighting against is a guerrilla army that is free." These comments reflect general beliefs...
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by James Heskett
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
with far too many features and software based on proprietary and interdependent architectures. "Microsoft has way overshot what the customer needs," Christensen said. Potential threats: Sun's Java technology, the Linux operating...
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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
Cablevision, and Tellabs (a maker of telecommunications products) in the late 1960s and 1970s to more recent investments such as Red Hat (a global provider of Linux and open-source technology), Internet Security Systems, online...
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