Open Source Projects

fluid Operations is a strong supporter of open source projects and the open source community. Therefore, some of our core technology assets have been published online as open source projects.

Information Workbench Community Edition

With the Information Workbench™, fluidOps delivers a highly customizable platform for Linked Data and Big Data management and solution development. This includes support for the semantic integration of heterogeneous data sources across the borders of individual domains, collaborative knowledge acquisition and augmentation, semantic search, business intelligence and analytics, as well as data visualization and exploration.

Licensing Information
The Information Workbench is freely available as an open source project. You are allowed to use, modify, and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL).

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Information Workbench

FedX – Linked Data in a Federation

FedX is a practical framework for transparent access to Linked Data sources through a federation. It incorporates new sophisticated optimization techniques combined with effective variants of existing techniques and is thus a highly scalable solution for practical federated query processing. FedX allows to easily setup on-demand federations by specifying a list of relevant endpoints (e.g. from the LOD cloud) and to query these federations via SPARQL in a transparent and efficient way.

Licensing Information
FedX is licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL) for use in open source applications. For proprietary, closed source applications, and other commercial applications, we offer alternative license terms upon request.

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FedX

fluidOps Enterprise Cloud Ontology

Aiming at promoting and facilitating data interoperability, fluidOps has openly published its enterprise cloud ontology. The fluidOps enterprise cloud ontology is the first ontology in the cloud management space and has been established as a de facto standard in this area. It abstracts from vendor-specific representations, data sources and management APIs to form the basis for integrating all information of a heterogeneous data center into a single, unifying semantic database. More »

Licensing Information
The fluidOps Enterprise Cloud Ontology is published under CC0 license.

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Documentation

Open Source Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) Driver

The VMFS Driver enables read-only access to files and folders on partitions formatted in the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) by VMware. VMFS is a clustered file system that is used by the VMware ESX hosts to store virtual machines and virtual disk files. The VMFS driver comes with a command line interface to mount and analyze VMFS volumes. It has been tested on Linux and Windows based hosts, but should work on any platform that supports Java. The VMFS driver is developed and maintained by fluid Operations. It can for example be used to allow enhanced features like offloaded backups of virtual machines hosted on VMware ESX hosts.

Licensing Information
The source code is placed under the GNU Public License (GPL). None of it is shareware. You don’t have to pay anyone to use it but you should be sure to read the copyright section of the FAQ for more information on how the GNU General Public License may affect your use of these tools. In particular, if you intend to use the code in a proprietary (non-GPL’d) application, you will need a proprietary-use license for the VMFS library. OEM partners can contact fluidOps for more information.

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	Browse the Source		FAQ

License Collector

License Collector is an ANT task that generates an html file in which all integrated 3rd party libraries are listed with their license specification and acknowledgments. The only thing the developer needs to think of is creating an information sheet when integrating/committing libraries. Then this small tool will render a nice Third Party License Term List, and your legal counsel will be happy.

Licensing Information
The source code is placed under the Apache License 2.0.

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	Browse the Source		Project Homepage