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Here is another story told it quotes. This one is about open source, and how it is changing the way we live. CRMChump has posted even more stories just like this.

17.Elephants Dream of … open source?

Elephants Dream is an eleven-minute animated film unlike any other. Not that it carries a new message or demonstrates revolutionary cinematic technique, but that it was made - modeled, animated, rendered, and composited – with open source software. The producers were the Amsterdam, Holland-based Orange Blender Project, and the film was put together in Amsterdam in 2005-2006. Elephants Dream is available on DVD from Orange Blender.

22.Now entering the Medsphere

The Medsphere OpenVista EHR platform was also installed last month at seven West Virginia state-operated acute care hospitals, psychiatric hospitals and long-term care facilities. The Bureau for Behavior Health and Health Facilities of West Virginia’s Department of Health and Human Resources selected Medsphere to supply and deploy its OpenVista software suite in order to create a complete electronic repository of patient information. “Vista has been one of the great healthcare success stories in recent years,” stated Medsphere CEO Kenneth W. Kizer, MD MPH. It seems so.

30.Help take the next giant leap

NASA wants to explore more space maybe even put that man on Mars that occasionally enters the fancy of space program fans. At the NASA website, you can help with such programs as building the Livingstone2 reusable artificial intelligence software system and NASA World Wind, “a graphically rich 3D virtual globe for use on desktop computers running Windows 2K or XP.” You, too, can participate in the next “giant leap for mankind.”

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