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Cynthia Harvey

Cynthia Harvey is a freelance writer and editor based in the Detroit area. She has been covering the technology industry for more than fifteen years.

Hadoop’s Ever Growing Popularity

As the need to analyze vast amounts of data stored in diverse locations increases, Hadoop grows ever more popular....

75 Open Source Apps That Could Improve Your Life

'Tis the season for New Year's resolutions. But if you're like many Americans you may have already...

Open Source Apps: the Monster List

It's become something of an annual tradition at Datamation to end the year with a gigantic compilation...

25 Ways Open Source is Catching On Beyond Software

At a conference earlier this month, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg told attendees, "not just software, but everything...

54 Open Source Alternatives for Server Software

According to a recent study by Stanford University consulting professor Jonathon Koomey, there are approximately 31.6 million...

50 Must-Have Open Source Apps for Your Home Office

These days, more and more people work at home at least part of the time. According to...

50 Top Linux Distributions

We sometimes talk about Linux as if it were one, single operating system, but of course, it...

Top 50 Portable Open Source Apps

If you travel frequently, it can be frustrating to have to use a system that doesn’t have...

63 Top Commercial Open Source Projects

ALSO SEE: 50 Open Source Replacements for Really Expensive Software AND: 53 Open Source Replacements to Spice...

60 Great Open Source Developer Tools

If you're looking for good open source developer tools, you literally have thousands to choose from. For...