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[News] Funding and Spondorship of Open Source Software Continues, Downloads Soar

  • Subject: [News] Funding and Spondorship of Open Source Software Continues, Downloads Soar
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 05:52:50 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
UTM Vendor Promotes Benefits of Open Source Sponsorships

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| To date, Astaro's UTM solution makes use of over 300 objects derived from 80 
| active Open Source projects. 
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http://www.emailwire.com/release/10427-UTM-Vendor-Promotes-Benefits-of-Open-Source-Sponsorships.html

SpringSource Release Train Chugs Along

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| In a blog post from May, when SpringSource received a $10 million shot in the 
|                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| arm from venture capitalists, Chief Technology Officer Adrian Colyer wrote 
| that in late 2006, "we started talking about the notion of a Spring 'release 
| train.' The idea behind the release train is that we put out coordinated 
| releases of the products in the Spring Portfolio: tested together and working  
| together. You can still pick and choose the pieces you need, but it will be 
| easier to use the various products together when you want to. We're not there 
| yet, but we're on our way."       
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2238326,00.asp

Continuent Offers Data Availability, Boosts Open Source Database Scaling 

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| ...new versions of Continuent uni/cluster for PostgreSQL and Continuent 
| uni/cluster for MySQL with improved database scaling and comfort of operation 
| in large-scale production environments.  
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http://opensourcepbx.tmcnet.com/topics/open-source/articles/16925-continuent-offers-data-availability-boosts-open-source-database.htm

dimdim Partners with SugarCRM

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| Purely via word-of-mouth, dimdim's open source version has been downloaded 
| more than 120,000 times. 
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,245766.shtml

The risks of open source focus

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| My last post addressed the nature of open source evolution and the 
| [increasing] risks of generic strategies within the context of industry 
| maturation. However, I did not delve into an analysis of the risk of focus 
| simply because I felt that the topic might warrant another blog post to 
| itself. Along those lines now, when there is an unprecedented level of 
| activity in the commercial open source sector, more than ever, it's 
| appropriate to work towards an understanding of:      
| 
|    1. What the risks of open source focus are
|    2. How they are affecting industry maturation
|    3. Where they fit into the competitive dynamics of commercial open source
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http://alexfletcher.typepad.com/all_bets_off/2007/12/the-risks-of-op.html


Related:

Open source to hit $22 billion by 2010. What this means for Red Hat and Novell

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| Interestingly, this number jumps to $41 billion if you add in the $19 billion 
| that enterprises will invest in internal open-source development instead of 
| wasting it on proprietary software licenses, according to Morgan Stanley...  
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9806036-16.html?tag=cnetfd.blogs.item


European spend on open source software hits 22bn Euros

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| Rishab Ghosh, a senior researcher at the UN University in Maastricht,
| will tell the Open Ireland conference in Dublin that the spend in the
| US on free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) stands at 36bn
| Euros and accounts for 20pc of software spend in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single7850


Open source funding: the complete picture

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| In addition to VC funding, we also took a look at the amounts raised
| by open source vendors via initial public offerings. These figures
| are not included in the totals of $1.89bn or $2.02bn, but for those
| that are interested, between them Red Hat, VA, Caldera, Mandriva,
| Turbolinux and Trolltech raised $319.9m via their IPOs.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/02/open_source_fun_2.html


Why do vendors invest in open source?

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| The Harvard Business School has published the preliminary draft
| an interesting report that confirms one thing we probably could
| have guessed - that vendors invest in open source for economic,
| rather than altruistic, reasons - and calculates a number of
| things we probably couldn't - such as the fact that vendors
| invested $2bn in open source software between 1995 and 2005.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/12/why_do_vendors.html


Source of the revolution

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| According to Ghosh, the notional value of Europe's investment in
| free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) today is e22bn,
| representing 20.5pc of the region's total software investment.
| Spending on OSS stands at e36bn and accounts for 20pc of software
| expenditure in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8105

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