Open Source is a Mindset

June 5, 2013

Open source is almost single-handedly powering the Big Data movement. And to that end, open source is getting a lot of credit and a lot of coverage. Many open source solutions are popping up in the trends’ wake. Among them is Appcelerator. The Appcelerator CEO, Jeff Haynie, weighs in on the power of open source in the current market in the Silicon Angle article, “Open Source is a Mindset, says Appcelerator CEO.”

The article states:

“Haynie also talked about how Appcelerator leverages with open-source while also giving back to its investors. For him, open-source does not necessarily mean free. It’s more like a mindset that enables a company to build technology through the benefit of a community that help each other innovate by expanding the innovation curve to prevent them from getting locked in to one proprietary system. ‘If you’re a platform company, you have to be open-source at some degree,’ Haynies added.”

Innovation and community are definitely two linchpins of open source. LucidWorks knows this and has done its best to capitalize on both. Their LucidWorks Search and LucidWorks Big Data platforms are built on the power of Apache Lucene and Solr, capitalizing on one of the strongest and longstanding open source communities.

Emily Rae Aldridge, June 5, 2013

Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Big data, News, Open source

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.