As Microsoft's CTO for Azure (and occasional novelist) Mark Russinovich told me, he believes this ability to use both Docker Swarm/Compose and the open-source components of DC/OS — both of which are based on open-source projects — makes the Azure Container Service stand out from some of its competitors.
Vendors will contribute equipment and engineering talent and the goal of the project is to create a commercial project based on open source tools.
It also built a custom proxy based on open source software to power the entire project.
Will this be based on open source tools?
The pipeline was equipped with extensive consistency checks for base quality, mapping errors, and contamination, and is based on the open source projects numpy (van der Walt et al., 2011), matplotlib (Hunter, 2007), Biopython (Cock et al., 2009), samtools (Li et al., 2009), pandas (McKinney, 2011), and SeqAn (Döring et al., 2008).
At the core of Google's phone efforts is an operating system for mobile phones that will be based on open-source Linux software, according to industry executives familiar with the project.
It is based on open-source software efforts — including the Robot Operating System, or ROS, developed by the Silicon Valley company Willow Garage, and a separate project called OpenCV, or Open Source Computer Vision Library.
Cloudera's new SQL offering, named Impala, is based on an open source project called Dremel that began inside Google.
*NB: Sailfish has not yet been open sourced, although the core OS is based on an open source project and has open source elements.
The entire big-data mobile smorgasbord is based on an open source project [Aharony] helped built at the MIT Media Lab, Funf, a public database of android-friendly software for turning cell phone toting-humans into willing lab rats of social experimentation.
