Motivations for Contributing to Open Source

There are currently over 50 different types of open source software licenses approved by the OSI (Open Source Initiative).[1] One consistent theme these licenses share is that they encourage contributions from a community of users and developers. In numerous instances these contributions have proved significant and resulted in the establishment some of the most dominant [...]

Clinical Research and the Cloud…two great things that don’t go together (yet).

Cloud computing seems to have become the best thing since sliced bread for most startups. With the arrival of Amazon Web Services and Google Apps, we have seen the rise of “pay-as-you-go, on-demand basis” for all aspects of IT infrastructure, including storage, servers, and processing speed. Already several startups have bet the farm on the [...]

And in Hardware News…

Coming soon to a piece of medical equipment near you: Storage maker SanDisk is making “Write Once Read Many” (WORM) SD Cards for forensic applications, but also for uses including ‘Medical devices which retain individual patient treatment data’ and ‘Personal digital assistants (PDAs) and similar devices used by physicians and other health-care professionals to track [...]