It has been my observation that when many folks ask for open source software, what they really want and mean is free(as in beer) software.
Ask HN: What are the best open source tools you use in your organization?
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#12GitLab
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#13Not a single tool we use is open source. Mainly because with an open source application there's no one source for security to go to and ask for a letter certifying the safety of the software. I wish I were kidding.
no linux servers anywhere? No open source network infrastructure?
Perhaps they use commercial distros, like RedHat and buy a support contract.
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#14GCC
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#16Rails ElasticSearch (And Kibana, holy shit) MySQL React Ractive Ubuntu NGINX Redis We stand on the backs of giants. Yet, for some reason, corporations feel entitled to not give back. Modern computing lives by open source. Companies should be obliged to contribute similarly.
If only there were some mechanism whereby value was traded fairly... :)
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#17HAProxy: http://www.haproxy.org/
The configuration language leaves much to be desired ... but it's otherwise a fantastic piece of software. It's the most configurable, full-featured, stable, and fast proxy server I've ever worked with.
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#18GCC
GDB
VTK
OpenCV
I work for big monolithic company (not a software company). Most of the libraries and dev tools the engineers in my dept use are open source unfortunately the environment they run on isn't.
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#19Spark has improved our ETL jobs by orders of magnitude, both with respect to performance and ability to engage our workforce (mostly Python programmers).
Previous tools that improved workflow: docker, nginx.
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#20loomio & cobudget