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How doing everything wrong turned Automattic into a multibillion dollar media powerhouse

TechCrunch

WordPress, the open source software behind the company, is now estimated to power roughly 42% of all websites on the internet. Back in 2003, that was the context for the so-called weblog, which would shortly be elided to blog. Nothing has been automatic about the success of Automattic.

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Emerging Threats: Provider of Open Source Threat Intelligence

CTOvision

Emerging Threats - now part of Proofpoint - is a world-leading provider of open source and commercial threat and malware intelligence. Founded in 2003 as a cyber security research community, Emerging Threats has become a de facto standard in network-based malware threat detection.

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History of MongoDB

The Crazy Programmer

MongoDB and is the open-source server product, which is used for document-oriented storage. Their initial development was mainly focused on building Platform as a Service, soon MongoDB came out as the open-source server that was very well- maintained by the organization. Mongo is a word that is derived from the Humongous.

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Context Conversations preview: Election security

The Parallax

And his biggest concern is securing funding, as the most recent federal investment in election modernization and security was the Help America Vote Act of 2003. And he now chairs its five-member Open Source Voting System Technical Advisory Committee. READ MORE ON ELECTION HACKING . Why current funding to secure U.S.

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History of MySQL Database

The Crazy Programmer

MySQL is a widely used relational open-source database management solution across the world. After one month, source and Linux binary got released. MySQL then went open source and can easily be accessed & used by everyone. . It became a popular open-source language among the developers.

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Octoverse spotlight: An analysis of developer productivity, work cadence, and collaboration in the early days of COVID-19

Github

What we found: Contributors to open source. People are collaborating more, especially on open source projects. Several open source projects have seen a spike in activity, and the time to merge a pull request on open source projects has dropped compared to last year. What we found.

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Context Conversations preview: Election security

The Parallax

And his biggest concern is securing funding, as the most recent federal investment in election modernization and security was the Help America Vote Act of 2003. And he now chairs its five-member Open Source Voting System Technical Advisory Committee. READ MORE ON ELECTION HACKING . Why current funding to secure U.S.

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