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Many of us declared victory for open source years ago, once it came to dominate key industry trends like big data, mobile, and cloud. But the real sign of winning is when mainstream enterprises talk about open source as part of their earnings calls. Once open source becomes a key component of financial performance, the momentum is unstoppable.

Combing through the last few quarters of earnings transcripts, it's clear that open source has arrived...but to very different destinations, depending on the company.

Vendors are perhaps the most obvious place to start the analysis, and here we get wildly divergent perspectives on open source. Despite almost every software company now incorporating open source software into its products, some companies clearly hold on to the idea that open source is a pesky threat.

Not, however, Hortonworks. For Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden, open source isn't just frosting on his business model: It's the heart of how Hortonworks builds products. Coming off a strong Q2, Bearden credited the open source development model for yielding superior big data tech, even as he took not-so-subtle swipes at Hadoop rival Cloudera:

However, as much as Hortonworks touted open source on its earnings call (10 times on each of the last two calls), supposedly proprietary Cloudera more than doubled that number (referencing open source 21 times on its latest earnings call). For Cloudera, open source is a critical part of its overall product, but not the whole product.

"Our hybrid open source software model combines the best of open source software with Cloudera's proprietary software that meets the exact requirements of large global enterprises and public sector entities, especially in the areas of performance, data security and compliance," Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly said on the call. "These capabilities are not available in standalone open source or from other vendors."

SEE: Why every developer is an open source developer now (TechRepublic)

For less open source-centric companies, open source is less of a focus while remaining prominent. Alteryx, for example, credits open source with changing the industry for all vendors, and talks about "addressing the trained data scientists around the world who are looking for a code-friendly platform that supports open source tools like ARP, Python and Scala to help them effectively do their jobs." In other words, "Hey, so long as data scientists want to use open source tools, we'll support them."

For New Relic, open source simply isn't good enough to compete ("[W]e have seen several open source projects in the past attempt at [Application Performance Management], but it's never been a real competitive threat for us historically").

For IBM, which offered just one mention of open source, it's primarily important as a marker for big shifts in the mainframe market ( z14's encryption advance is "the biggest reinvention of our mainframe technology since the reinvention for Linux and open source software 15 years ago"). Yippee.

As for Red Hat, the $2 billion open source leader, open source was called out just five times. For Red Hat, open source is implicit in everything it does.

Outside of tech, however, open source is also getting its due.

There is, of course, blatant misuse of open source. Take, for example, Adidas calling out its partnership with Kanye West as a big part of its open source strategy. No, it makes no sense because it has nothing to do with open source...or software...or, really, anything.

SEE: Why AWS Lambda could be the worst thing to happen to open source (TechRepublic)

Much more interesting, however, is The Bank of New York Mellon's chairman Gerald Hassell, who declared: "[O]ur early commitment to an open source digital platform sets us up nicely to continue to differentiate ourselves in the global marketplace." For a large financial services company to publicly acknowledge the importance of open source to its services is a big deal.

The reason for this comes out in Sabre's earnings call, wherein CEO Sean Menke pointed to open source as a competitive differentiator: "A combination of cloud deployment and ability to integrate open source solutions will allow us to respond to our customers' demand for speed and agility, while balancing our cost." As such, "In 2017, we're accelerating our adoption of the latest open source technology."

As Google, Facebook, and other web giants know, open source (often coupled with cloud) gives enterprises the flexibility to innovate faster. To do it well, companies must invest in developers who, in turn, contribute code and develop both proficiency in a project and the ability to influence its direction. That's open source done right, and it's even better than Kanye West.

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Slow growth in Latin American countries in recent years has stood open source software giant RedHat in good stead as companies seek to reduce costs and innovate to create new business models.

"Often what is a limitation to certain companies during an economic downturn, like budget cuts, is favorable for us. We're not so exposed to economic fluctuations. We're counter cyclical," Adrin Cambareri (pictured) Latin America region manager for Red hat's infrastructure business group, told BNamericas, speaking on the sidelines of the RedHat Forum in Santiago, Chile.

According to the executive, RedHat has been growing 20% yearly globally and at a similar rate in Latin America.

The executive said that open source is no longer seen as something taboo "that you hide under the desk" or which does not provide the same guarantees for corporate users as proprietary software.

"Now it is seen to be just as robust, secure and capable of meeting compliance standards as proprietary software," Cambareri said.

In today's world of digital transformation, open source software has come to be seen as the best bet for rapidly adapting to new technology trends as it allows a large community of developers to create new applications that can then be converted into enterprise grade products. This contrasts with the "lock-in" mentality of proprietary software where the only innovation can come from the company that created it.

"Typically companies reinvest a maximum of 10% of the their income in R&D. With open source there is no limit, the whole community is constantly innovating," Cambareri said.

"It's no surprise that 12 of the top 20 companies worldwide in terms of revenue are digital native companies whose technology is based on open source," he added.

"If traditional companies want to compete with these digital natives they have speed up their rate of innovation through open source software."

"Open source used to be just seen as the more economical option to do things, especially for governments. Over time that perception has changed and open source has taken the lead in terms of innovation."

Adoption is being seen across the board but in particular in the financial services (fintechs), retail healthcare, telecommunications and government.

Brazil, Mexico and Peru have been among the fastest adopters.

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By John Emmitt

Industry research shows that 95% of organizations use Open Source Software (OSS) in their mission critical applications. There are a number of reasons for this, including being able to develop applications faster and with higher quality. And, hey, its free, right? Last year (2016), there were 79 billion (with a 'B') downloads of OSS components!

At the same time, most organizations have no idea how much open source code they are actually using. In fact, the data says that organizations typically are aware of less than 10% of the open source software they are using.

For enterprises that are developing applications for internal use, OSS represents a potential security risk-- there are software vulnerabilities in many OSS components. Well known OSS exploits include Heartbleed, Ghost and Shellshock. How many of those 79 billion downloads had more than 1 software vulnerability? 1 out of every 16. That's more than 4.9 billion OSS components.

What can you do about this?

Many companies do the following to manage open source software use:

There is also license compliance risk when using OSS, particularly for companies that are developing applications for sale or use outside of their own organization. Depending on the open source license being used for a given OSS component, there are different requirements, including, in some cases, the requirement to release your source code to the public. This is the case for the GPL v2 and GPL v3 licenses, for example.

Here is a handy field guide to OSS licensing:

We have also put together a checklist for open source software license compliance:

You can download a copy of this field guide and compliance checklisthere.

To learn more about Flexera's FlexNet Code Insight product, please visit our website.

You might also be interested in our on-demand Webinar: The State of Open Source Software (OSS): 2016 Year in Review.

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Industry research shows that 95% of organizations use Open Source Software (OSS) in their mission critical applications. There are a number of reasons for this, including being able to develop applications faster and with higher quality. And, hey, its free, right? Last year (2016), there were 79 billion (with a B) downloads of OSS components!

At the same time, most organizations have no idea how much open source code they are actually using. In fact, the data says that organizations typically are aware of less than 10% of the open source software they are using.

For enterprises that are developing applications for internal use, OSS represents a potential security risk there are software vulnerabilities in many OSS components. Well known OSS exploits include Heartbleed, Ghost and Shellshock. How many of those 79 billion downloads had more than 1 software vulnerability? 1 out of every 16. Thats more than 4.9 billion OSS components.

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August 03, 2017 03:00 ET | Source: Percona

RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 03, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Percona, the company that delivers enterprise-class MySQL, MongoDB and other open source database solutions and services, today revealed the initial roster of speakers, tutorials and sponsors for Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017, taking place September 25-27, 2017 at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. The special Early Bird registration discount rate is only available until August 8, 2017, and a special room rate at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel expires on August 14, 2017. Sponsorship opportunities are still available.

The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe, which was completely sold-out in 2016, is the premier event for individuals and businesses developing and using open source software.

The conference theme this year is Championing Open Source Databases, with sessions onMySQL, MariaDB, MongoDBandother open source database technologies, including time series databases, PostgreSQL and RocksDB. The 2017 conference will feature a range of keynote addresses, in-depth discussions and hands-on tutorials for three formal tracks Developer, Business/Case Studies and Operations.

The full conference schedule will be announced in the coming weeks, but the list of speakers and topics is already impressive, with representatives from Dropbox, Facebook, Oracle, VMware and more. The roster currently includes the following:

Keynote Addresses

Breakout Sessions MySQL:

MongoDB:

Other Open Source Database Topics:

Tutorials

Sponsorships Sponsors for Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017 are already signing up. Sponsorship offers the opportunity to interact with hundreds of DBAs, sysadmins, developers, CTOs, CEOs, business managers, technology evangelists, solution vendors, and entrepreneurs who typically attend the event. Current sponsors include:

Diamond Sponsor Continuent Gold Sponsor VividCortex

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What: Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017 Where: Radisson Blu Royal Hotel,8 Golden Lane, Dublin, Ireland When: September 25-27, 2017

About Percona

With more than 3,000 customers worldwide, Percona is the only company that delivers enterprise-class solutions for both MySQL, MongoDB and other open source databases across traditional and cloud-based platforms. The company providesSoftware, Support, Consulting, andManaged Services to large, well-known global brands such as Cisco Systems, Time Warner Cable, Alcatel-Lucent, Rent the Runway and the BBC, as well as smaller enterprises looking to maximize application performance while streamlining database efficiencies. Well established as thought leaders, Percona experts author content for the Percona Database Performance Blog and the Percona Live Open Source Database Conferences draw attendees and expert technical speakers from around the world. For more information, visitwww.percona.com.

Percona, XtraBackup, TokuDB and Fractal Tree are registered trademarks of Percona LLC or its subsidiaries. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners.

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Black Duck, the global leader in automated solutions for securing and managing open source software, today reported record revenue and record revenue growth for the first half of 2017.

The company said new and add-on revenue from subscriptions to Black Duck Hub, its flagship open source security solution, grew by 77 percent in the first half of 2017 and subscription renewal rates for Hub were in the mid-90-percent range.

Black Duck had a 64 percent increase in new customers during 2016, and the company said it nearly matched the 2016 new-customer total in the first half of 2017. Notable customers added to the portfolio since January include HPE, Carbon Black, Exact Group BV, and Copper Leaf.

CEO Lou Shipley said the company expects overall revenue growth for 2017 will exceed 30 percent in 2017, up 50 percent from 2016.

Were encouraged by our first-half performance and were on track for an equally strong second half of 2017, said Shipley.

Open source software dominates application development today and organizations are increasingly recognizing the need for more effective open source security and management throughout their software development lifecycle. This drives demand for Hub because it helps reduce risk by addressing difficult open source security and management challenges without slowing development, Shipley said.

Black Duck highlighted other significant areas of momentum during the first half of 2017:

In February, Forrester Research published a report punctuating the importance of Software Composition Analysis (SCA) in helping enterprises know whats in their code. The report offered insights into the strategies and solutions available to gain visibility into open source software use and identified the vendors best positioned to help reduce security, management and IP risk. Black Duck was alone in Forresters leader category. Building world-class partnerships is a major corporate goal for 2017, said Shipley, and were encouraged by the strategic partnerships we developed in the first half of this year. He said that as the software development and delivery process becomes increasingly complex spanning AppDev, DevOps, SecDevOps, Containers, the Cloud and IoT a strong ecosystem partnerships and technology integrations is vital. Black Duck has announced integrations or partnerships with Google, Red Hat, Microsoft, Atlassian, and Pivotal.

Black Ducks global headcount has increased 25 percent from 281 to 350 employees worldwide since January. The company expanded the footprint of its Burlington, MA, headquarters in 2016 and Shipley said, weve already outgrown the expansion space and well add more in the coming months. The company introduced Hub in the first quarter of 2015 and Shipley said that significant investments in engineering, in research and in innovation over the last two years have helped us deliver the product capabilities and functionality that have established us as a category leader. Well continue to invest heavily to maintain that leadership. In late 2016, the company established the Black Duck Center for Open Source Research and Innovation (COSRI) and two new groups in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Vancouver, Canada, are conducting cutting-edge research in open source security vulnerability management, in data mining and in machine learning to drive product innovation.

In April, COSRI released its landmark 2017 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) detailing audit of more than 1,000 applications that showed significant cross-industry risks related to open source vulnerabilities and license-compliance challenges.

The COSRI report found high levels of open source usage 96 percent of the audited applications contained open source and significant risk to open source security vulnerabilities. More than 60 percent of the applications contained open source security vulnerabilities.

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BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Black Duck, the global leader in automated solutions for securing and managing open source software, today reported record revenue and record revenue growth for the first half of 2017.

The company said new and add-on revenue from subscriptions to Black Duck Hub, its flagship open source security solution, grew by 77 percent in the first half of 2017 and subscription renewal rates for Hub were in the mid-90-percent range.

Black Duck had a 64 percent increase in new customers during 2016, and the company said it nearly matched the 2016 new-customer total in the first half of 2017. Notable customers added to the portfolio since January include HPE, Carbon Black, Exact Group BV, and Copper Leaf.

CEO Lou Shipley said the company expects overall revenue growth for 2017 will exceed 30 percent in 2017, up 50 percent from 2016.

Were encouraged by our first-half performance and were on track for an equally strong second half of 2017, said Shipley.

Open source software dominates application development today and organizations are increasingly recognizing the need for more effective open source security and management throughout their software development lifecycle. This drives demand for Hub because it helps reduce risk by addressing difficult open source security and management challenges without slowing development, Shipley said.

Black Duck highlighted other significant areas of momentum during the first half of 2017:

He said that as the software development and delivery process becomes increasingly complex spanning AppDev, DevOps, SecDevOps, Containers, the Cloud and IoT a strong ecosystem partnerships and technology integrations is vital. Black Duck has announced integrations or partnerships with Google, Red Hat, Microsoft, Atlassian, and Pivotal.

In late 2016, the company established the Black Duck Center for Open Source Research and Innovation (COSRI) and two new groups in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Vancouver, Canada, are conducting cutting-edge research in open source security vulnerability management, in data mining and in machine learning to drive product innovation.

In April, COSRI releasedits landmark 2017 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) detailing audit of more than 1,000 applications that showed significant cross-industry risks related to open source vulnerabilities and license-compliance challenges.

The COSRI report found high levels of open source usage 96 percent of the audited applications contained open source and significant risk to open source security vulnerabilities. More than 60 percent of the applications contained open source security vulnerabilities.

About Black Duck Software

Organizations worldwide use Black Duck Softwares industry-leading products to automate the processes of securing and managing open source software, eliminating the pain related to security vulnerabilities, open source license compliance and operational risk. Black Duck is headquartered in Burlington, MA, and has offices in San Jose, CA, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing. For more information, visitwww.blackducksoftware.com.

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In July, Sonatype released their third annual State of the Software Supply Chain report concluding that when organisations actively manage the quality of open source components in software applications they see a 28% improvement in developer productivity (through reduction in manual governance), a 30% reduction in overall development costs, and a 48% increase in application quality (as application vulnerabilities are removed early reducing their incidence in production). Analysis also showed that applications built by teams utilising automated governance tools reduced the percentage of defective components by 63%.

Derek Weeks, VP and DevOps Advocate at Sonatype told InfoQ:

The data comes from a number of different sources; empirical data assessed from Maven Central for Java and Sonatype has indexed other repositories such NPMJS.org (Javascript), the NuGet Gallery (.Net) and PyPi.org (Python). We also research throughout the year, constantly keeping an eye on the market for news and stories about open source components, quality and practices and regulations.

The report also highlighted the growth in consumption of open source components in software development; year-over-year downloads of Java components grew 68% (52 billion in 2016), JavaScript downloads grew 262% (59 billion in 2016), and demand for Docker components is expected to grow by 100% in the next 12 months (12 billion downloads).

Weeks said:

Innovation is king, speed is critical, open source is at centre stage. Because speed is critical, any developer or CIO or CEO will say if you can do something in one second versus fifteen minutes, choose the one second option. This is why people are choosing the download from the internet option rather than the build from scratch option.

Part of the challenge for organisations using open source components is that, according to the report, open source software (OSS) projects take a mean time of 233 days to remediate a known vulnerability - and only 15.8% of OSS projects do actively fix vulnerabilities.

Weeks said:

Most open source projects are perhaps not aware of the vulnerabilities - maybe the security researchers are not able to effectively communicate their findings with the projects. Maybe there arent enough people that understand secure coding practices in the projects themselves in order to assess and remediate the vulnerabilities. This is conjecture on my part.

Sonatype claims that high-functioning DevOps organizations are utilizing machine automation to govern the quality of open source components flowing through their software supply chains thereby improving software hygiene.

Weeks said:

People need to be aware of what open source components they are using in their software development. Awareness changes behaviours; build a bill of materials of your software. Once you have the bill of materials you can assess what is good. This awareness needs to happen much more than it does now. If you want to understand if you are using good or bad components, the earlier this happens the better. If you are delivering this intelligence to developers they can make choices and embed secure coding practices early in the coding cycle.

We asked Weeks if there is security skills shortage. He said:

Yes and no. With every new movement in the IT industry theres always a shortage of skills but the way the IT industry continues to evolve is by finding tools and solutions to automate these things. You can say there is an application security skills shortage or you can say I have a person manually assessing the security of an application - what if instead of having them work manually, have them automate part of that analysis or security as part of their job? That makes that person in that organisation more productive. Technology and automation is the answer to skills shortage - we innovate our way out of it.

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Open source software adoption continues to disrupt the traditional IT markets, as enterprise CIOs and CTOs seek ways to evolve by working with progressive vendors and service providers who have a proven track record of open innovation.

The growth of digital business transformation and the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to drive large investment in IT operations management (ITOM) through 2020, according to the latest global market study by Gartner. A primary driver for organisations moving to ITOM open-source software (OSS) is lower cost of ownership.

While acceptance of OSS ITOM is increasing, traditional closed-source ITOM software still has the biggest budget allocation today. Moreover, complexity and governance issues that face users of OSS ITOM tools cannot be ignored.

"In fact, these issues open up opportunities for ITOM vendors. Even vendors that are late to market with ITOM functionality can compete in this area," said Laurie Wurster, research director at Gartner.

Gartner believes many enterprises will turn to managed ITOM or ITOM as a service (ITOMaaS) enabled by open-source technologies and provided by a third party. With OSS, vendors can provide more cost-effective and readily available ITOM functions in a scaled manner through the cloud.

Through 2020, public cloud and managed services are expected to be leveraged more often for ITOM tools, which will drive growth of the subscription business model for both cloud and on-premises ITOM.

However, on-premises deployments will still be the most common delivery method. This imposes multiple challenges to incumbent ITOM vendors. First, those vendors that do not offer a cloud delivery model will face continuous cannibalisation from ITOM vendors that can deliver ITOM through both cloud and on-premises.

Second, platform vendors are providing some native ITOM functionalities on their public clouds. Customers that are running workloads solely on these platforms may prefer these native features. There are also hybrid requirements for ITOM tools that can seamlessly manage both cloud and on-premises environments.

Customer demand has driven traditional software vendors to transform and adapt to the changing technology and competitive landscapes. Competitive pressure from cloud (SaaS offerings) and commercial OSS (offerings with a free license plus paid support) is forcing ITOM providers to move toward subscription-based business models for both cloud and on-premises deployments.

The influx of new, smaller ITOM vendors focused on one or two major tool categories will continue to cause disruption for large traditional suite vendors. Given this situation, traditional vendors will need to react by changing how their products fit together.

More importantly, according to the Gartner assessment, traditional vendors need to change how their solutions are sold as customers exert significant pressure to shift to offering cloud-based services.

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In 2016, the Open Source Drives Digital Innovation study commissioned by Red-Hat and conducted by analyst house Forrester revealed that 52% of CIOs and senior IT decision makers in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are already tapping open source software in areas such as cloud, mobility, big data and DevOps.

More IT decision-makers are turning to open source to drive better efficiency and digital innovation, as its flexibility enables organisations to build new customer experiences, services and products more quickly.

As more enterprises tap open source there are some misconceptions about what open-source means. Open source technology allows for incredible collaboration between people, communities and projects. Yet many inadvertently associate the words free and easy with open source which is not always true. Open source makes tech easily accessible and collaborative, which drives incredibly fast innovation. But open source is much more than easily accessible tech. Enterprise needs must be considered and that is why the business of open source tech is about more than just accessibility.

Here are five reasons why you need more than DIY (Do-It-Yourself) open source.

The open source tech community is not necessarily motivated or inspired to make an integrated set of different open source technologies (projects) work together. Each team is in charge of their own project but making it all work together, easily, seamlessly spending time to test and certify different sets of tech together is not their mandate. The community is responsible to their members, and to the guidelines of their community each of which can have differing rules, different codes of conduct for each project. The community is not responsible to other communities and are not necessarily developing the necessary glue to make everything work together for an enterprise grade level of integrated functionality.

Success Requirement: Someone (usually a software vendor) who is a member of the communities, to compile different projects into a single implementable software package.

The collaboration of open source creates an unprecedented pace of innovation, but this pace is not always compatible with enterprise business. Not every business can implementnew systems or upgrade existing ones, create new processes and train people to adapt at the same pace that the community is developing at. And in fact, sometimes such a pace can be detrimental to good business outcomes where some stability is required to refine and develop best practices and outcomes.

Success Requirement: Access to multiple (possibly more mature) versions of the integrated software package to give enterprises the freedom to update to newer versions at their own pace.

Not every enterprise customer needs the leading edge, or the so-called bleeding edge. While the open source community continues to shift towards the next version, the newest features, the new release, it still takes time to mobilize an enterprise to adapt to the change. Enterprises may not always be on the same leading edge innovation that the open source community is on. Business critical environments may be based on more mature versions of open source tech for better business stability. Creating a balance of adapting innovative new tech with stable, more mature tech is not necessarily in alignment with the objectives of the open source community.

Success Requirement: Establish a clear new technology introduction path, usually by including an early version of the new tech as a technical preview into the integrated software package.

Some requirements such as enterprise security and governance do not organically manifest themselves in open source communities. Only when there is an application, and integration across different technologies does this become an issue. For some needs to be met in open source, there needs to be a voice representing enterprise needs in a public forum, to foster innovation and collaboration of needs into either new or existing open source communities.

Success Requirement: An enterprise voice in the open source community.

Open source means collaborative innovation that is easy to access. But easy to access doesnt mean its easy to succeed. For example almost everyone has access to a grocery store and the raw ingredients it offers. But to make a casserole, a souffle, to create duck au confit requires experience and expertise. The open source community is no more obligated to making enterprises successful with their tech, than a grocery store is obligated to make someone a great chef. To make your project succeed enterprises need expertise; expertise than can be home-grown, hired, and/or trained. In most cases a combination of in-house staff and experts from outside who had done this many times are the best approach. Simply being able to download bits does not result in a successful business outcome.

Success requirement: Connect in house software deployment, integration and testing with outside experience, expertise, enterprise support, professional services and education.

There is much more to being successful with open source technology than just a Do-It-Yourself project of downloading and installing raw bits of technology. Hortonworks is in the business of helping enterprises harness the power of open source technology to create successful business outcomes

Kamal Brar, Vice President and General Manager of Asia Pacific at Hortonworks

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