The phrase "an open source system" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a software system that is made available with its source code, allowing users to modify and distribute it.
Example: "The company decided to adopt an open source system to enhance collaboration and innovation among developers."
Alternatives: "a free software system" or "a publicly available system".
One of the tools it has developed is an open source system called RapidSMS, which harnesses the power of text messaging for data collection and group communication. .
This is an especially interesting question considering that, as an open source system, there is no figurehead or CEO pulling the strings, or making product decisions.
GraphLab was initially an academic project in Guestrin's research group, where the researchers were writing large-scale machine learning algorithms for hadoop, which they released as an open source system for large-scale graph analytics.
Corbett, Jessop and co-workers [8 11] performed studies on chemical name mining on text and developed OSCAR4 [11], an open source system to identify chemical names in scientific articles.
Although Android is an open source system and available to anyone who seeks to build a device around it, Google has exercised a degree of brand control - withholding access to its official Application Market from those manufacturers who do not meet certain technical standards.
Wild also emphasized that Keen IO can scale to large amounts of data, and that the company aims to be transparent about the different technology it uses — "a lot of the meat," he said, comes from Storm, an open source system for real-time computation.
Its most popular product is openQRM, an open source systems management platform that helps to automate enterprise data centers and keep them running.
He uses an open-source system called PyMol that helps viewers visualize molecules.
FreeNet is also an open-source system, which lets third parties modify it and deal with any bugs.
In December 2008, Google said it would give away Android, an open-source system, free to phone makers.
But it is working on a solution that will give users the option of encrypting their mailboxes using an open-source system based on two-way encryption.
