SugarCRM eyes a public offering
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| SugarCRM began in 2004 and offers its Sugar CRM package via a hybrid
| commercial-open source model and delivers it via onsite and on-demand modes.
| The company has amassed more than 3,000 customers in 30 countries, SugarCRM
| officials said.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/08/sugar-qa_1.html
Regulators clear Sun's purchase of MySQL
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| Federal antitrust regulators cleared Sun Microsystems Inc.'s $1 billion
| purchase of open-source software developer MySQL AB, a U.S. government agency
| said Friday.
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http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8UM8OJG0.htm
Can open source and capitalism co-exist?
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| So, why do they care? Because open source makes money. In my favorite quote
| from the panel, Stephen Bate, vice president of software development at
| FOLIOfn, an online brokerage firm, said, "Open source helps people get to
| market faster and in many cases lowers the cost."
|
| Exactly.
|
| And that's why FOSS is becoming ever more important not just in technology,
| but in a whole economy that runs on technology.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4779678347.html
Zvents releases open-source cluster database
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| An already-working open source database project could let other web companies
| join Google for bragging rights as the owners of a thousand-node database
| cluster.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/020608-hypertable.html
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