Open Source Booms as ApacheCon Europe 2008 Pulls in Record Crowds
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| This figure represents an increase of more than 40% over the previous year,
| demonstrating the rapidly growing interest in Open Source software amongst
| European businesses.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080429005160&newsLang=en
More evidence of growth of FOSS in Europe:
Openbravo Draws Community Members from across the Globe to European Community
Get Together in Run-up to First US Community Event
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| Openbravo, the leading developer of web-based open source Enterprise Resource
| Planning (ERP) and Point of Sale (PoS) solutions for small and medium sized
| enterprises (SMEs), has completed its European Get Together 2008 which was
| attended by more than 50 companies from 15 countries around the world.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080429006076&newsLang=en
Irish Open Source Technology Conference 2008
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| SugarCRM, the Open Source CRM software company who recently established a
| base on Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin, have added their support to the
| Irish Open Source community by sponsoring the Irish Open Source Technology
| Conference. on June 18th to 20th.
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http://www.irishdev.com/blogs/irish_open_source_technology_conference_2008/archive/2008/04/29/5696.aspx
Related:
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
Firefox reached 29% share in Europe
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| XiTi Monitor has released the latest numbers on browsers utilization in
| Europe and the rest of the world, announcing it has reached about 29% in
| March 2008.
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http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/04/firefox-reached-29-share-in-europe/
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