Open Source: IT Tools

Information Technology (IT) tools used to develop, operate, or maintain computer systems and application software solutions, e.g. operating systems (OS), data base management systems (DBMS), etc.

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OpenNMS

OpenNMS is an open source enterprise grade network management application platform. The OpenNMS Project originally started back in July 1999. It was designed from 'day one' to monitor tens of thousands to ultimately unlimited devices with a single instance. It brings the power, scalability and flexibility that enterprises and carriers demand.

OW2 Consortium

In 2007, two leading open source middleware communities, ObjectWeb and Orientware, merged to form the OW2 Consortium consisting of renowned industry IT corporations, innovative start-ups, prominent academic organizations and individuals from across the world. OW2 is an independent open source community committed to making available to everyone the best and most reliable enterprise computing infrastructure software, including middleware, application platforms and cloud computing technologies. Read More »

Plurilock

Plurilock is an innovative, identity-centric cybersecurity company that reduces or eliminates the need for passwords, extra authentication steps, and cumbersome authentication devices. Plurilock's software leverages state-of-the-art behavioral-biometric, environmental, and contextual technologies to provide invisible, adaptive, and risk-based authentication solutions with the lowest possible cost and complexity. 

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PortableApps

PortableApps offers a fully open source and free platform and software development tools which any developer can use to build mobile apps and other portable solutions. They also offer a comprehensive directory of open source, freeware, and commercial mobile apps.

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. It runs on all major operating systems. Read More »

Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized open source hardware (OSHW) computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK registered charity that provides support for this effort.

Red Flag

Red Flag Linux is a Chinese Linux distribution developed by Red Flag Software. The distribution logo is Tux carrying a prominent red flag. Red Flag Software is focused on developing and marketing Linux-based operating systems and application software on multiple platforms for the constantly growing base of Chinese technology users.

Ruby On Rails

Ruby On Rails is an open source web framework for software application developers. It uses the Ruby programming language. 'Rails' was created in 2003 by David Heinemeier Hansson and has since been extended by the Rails core team, more than 2,100 contributors, and is supported by a vibrant ecosystem.

Socratic Grid

Socratic Grid is an early-stage, 'open sourced' Clinical Decision Support platform for healthcare. It provides tools for modeling the semantics and structure of clinical and administrative data, for real-time analysis using a variety of inferencing technologies, and for delivering actionable results using highly optimized automated workflows. Read More »

Software Freedom Conservancy

The Software Freedom Conservancy is a not-for-profit organization that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. Conservancy provides a non-profit home and infrastructure for many FLOSS projects and products. Many of these are software tools that are particularly useful to the software development community.

Sqrrl

Sqrrl is the creator of Sqrrl Enterprise, which is the secure, massively scalable Big Data platform powered by Apache Accumulo. Read More »

TileMill

TileMill is a free and open source application or design studio that allows you to create compelling, interactive maps. TileMill is built on a suite of modern open source libraries including Mapnik, node.js, backbone.js, express and CodeMirror. Go to GitHub to obtain and work with the source code. Read More »

Tizen

Tizen is an open source, standards-based software platform supported by leading mobile operators, device manufacturers, and silicon suppliers for multiple device categories such as smartphones, tablets, netbooks, in-vehicle infotainment devices, and smart TVs. Tizen offers an innovative operating system, applications, and a user experience that consumers can take from device to device. Read More »

TWiki

TWiki is a powerful, open source enterprise wiki, collaboration platform, and web application platform. It is often used as a project development tool, a document management system, a knowledge base, or as a form of groupware tool in either an Intranet or Internet setting. Users without programming skills can easily create web applications. Read More »

Ubuntu

The Ubuntu free and open source Linux operating system powers millions of desktops, netbooks and servers around the world.  Ubuntu does everything you need it to. It'll work with your existing PC files, printers, cameras and MP3 players.Ubuntu also comes with thousands of free applications contributed by the Ubuntu community of developers from around the world. Read More »