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Challenges and Opportunities for E-Science Project Management, 10-11 April 2008,
OeRC, University of Oxford, UK
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14. OMII-UK provides free Open Source software and support to enable a sustained future for the UK e-Research community. Our software includes Software Solutions, which are easy-to-use and easy-to-install software packages that solve common e-Research problems, and the Development Kit, which is a set of inter-operable software components that can be linked together to provide bespoke functionality. OMII-UK supports Open Source software development by commissioning developers to produce software with the functionality required by our user community. omii.ac.uk
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