There can be little doubt but that there is increased emphasis placed on Ireland as a knowledge economy. We have a well-established array of research funding agencies , whose aim is to promote the area of R&D within Ireland, by focusing on industry R&D and by linking industry and academia. This is all done to improve the long-term viability and sustainability of the Irish economy. But what can individual firms achieve on their own? What R&D are they doing? And, significantly, who is benefiting from this focus? DSI as an organisation is certainly contributing to this work, much time and effort is devoted to R&D activities. Let us examine this work, and ultimately see who is benefiting from this.
The open source community has long since emerged as a leading example of cooperation and collaboration within the wider software development community. DSI’s long standing commitment to supporting open source software is demonstrated by having a policy for preferential adoption of OSS tools and applications where possible, and by actively contributing to other OSS initiatives. Earlier this year DSI announced that it was invited to contribute to the open source framework Spring .NET. This follows on from DSI’s adoption of Spring as the framework of choice for DSI’s Java application development. Recently DSI released it’s own OS DBPro Bridge application. This is of interest to developers using Visual Studio who are required to work in conjunction with a DBA using DBPro. This is designed as an open source download, users can use it as a plug-in to their own software development projects.
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