Black Duck Buying Koders for Code Search
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| More than 30,000 users visit Koders.com each day, according to Black Duck. A
| free search engine there can tap some 766 million lines of open-source code
| written in more than 30 languages and associated with 28 software licenses,
| the company said. The search engine will remain free.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145187/black_duck_buying_koders_for_code_search.html
And another new partnership:
SnapLogic and WaveMaker Partner to Deliver Complete Open Source Enterprise
Mashup Solution
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| Today at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Conference, SnapLogic, Inc., the Really Simple
| Integration company, and WaveMaker, a provider of open source tools for rapid
| Web application development, announced a strategic partnership to deliver a
| complete open source solution for creating enterprise mashups.
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http://sanfrancisco.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?newsid=156934&type_news=latest
Recent:
Economic slowdown could boost open source
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| The economic slowdown in the US could boost demand for open source technology
| and services, analyst firm IDC has claimed.
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| A recent survey by the company found that 60pc of American firms polled
| increased the percentage of their annual IT budget spent on open source
| technology in 2007.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single10802
VC funding for open source hits an all-time high
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| Incidentally, total funding to date stands at $2.64bn.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/04/01/vc-funding-for-open-source-hits-an-all-time-high/
Open-source venture investing hits an all-time high
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| Just when you thought venture interest in open source was quieting down,
| along comes the biggest quarter in open source's (still young) history:
| $203.75 million raised, as reported by The 451 Group. This trumped the
| previous record of $193.6 million from Q4 2006.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9907679-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
Sun: Economic slowdown favors open source
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| Speaking to ZDNetAsia in an exclusive interview, he said the economic
| slowdown in the United States will favor open source companies. "During an
| economic slowdown, not everything slows down [and] IT projects will continue
| to be undertaken. But IT budgets will be reduced," he said, noting that
| companies will then turn to lower cost software options such as open source.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62038598,00.htm
The rise of the open-source billionaire
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| For Google, the underlying open source is made to be almost incidental
| (though they and others like PayPal are quick to point out that they could
| not do what they do without open source). But I suspect we'll see projects
| like MySQL directly monetize and promote the value of the open source
| powering their service offerings.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9925336-16.html
Piper Jaffray Starts Red Hat (RHT) at Buy
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| Piper Jaffray initiates coverage on Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) with a Buy rating and
| $26 price target, saying the company should benefit from global adoption of
| open source technologies.
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http://www.streetinsider.com/New+Coverage/Piper+Jaffray+Starts+Red+Hat+(RHT)+at+Buy/3562655.html
No Recession at Red Hat
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| It is flattering to be mentioned, Mr. Whitehurst said, but he noted that
| corporate customers and the industry benefit from what he called Red
| Hat’s “Switzerland status” — not being a province of one of the major powers
| in the technology industry.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/no-recession-at-red-hat/
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