Apple Adopts ‘Open Source’ Technology

While it’s been rare or otherwise uncharted waters up until now, Apple has recently released its multi platform and OS-friendly programming language and platform; known as Swift. Swift is very easy to use for designing programs, observing, learning, and modifying software from scratch—similar to that of the elements of C++ or JavaScript–for example. People turn …

Russian Hospitals to Use IBM Lotus Domino

Prnewswire.com [2011-01-11] – IBM announced today that multiple hospitals throughout Russia have switched from paper-based medical systems to a new solution from IBM and Complex Medical Information Systems (C-MIS) to provide fast electronic medical record exchange and unified access to many types of healthcare data, allowing doctors and medical staff to share information and access tests and …

Putin to Order Russian Government to Switch to Free Software

Mashable.com (2010-12-29) -Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed a government order that lays out the groundwork for the transition of federal bodies and agencies to use free software, including Linux, by 2015. The 25-point document (available here) outlines specific steps the government must take in order to move off proprietary software and onto free and/or …