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[News] The Rise of Free Software Seen in Numbers

  • Subject: [News] The Rise of Free Software Seen in Numbers
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:07:59 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Open Source Opens Checkbooks

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| Automattic gets a US $29.5M round of Series B funding.
| 
| Alfresco secures a US $9M round of Series C funding.
| 
| Sun Microsystems pays a cool US $1 Billion for MySQL.
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http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/open-source-opens-checkbooks-002276.php

2008 will be the year of the open source CMS

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| Over the last six years, we have seen the strong growth of content management 
| software. In fact, the problem today is not finding a CMS to use — it’s 
| picking which one to use. Sites such as www.cmswire.com and www.cmsmatrix.org 
| have sprung up simply to meet this need and www.opensourcecms.com has live 
| demos of over 100 CMS scripts.    
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http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=166

Nice charts.


Related:

Today’s the day for open source venture funding

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| According to 451 CAOS Theory figures $80.5m worth of open source VC funding 
| has been announced in the first 22 days of 2008, compared with $100.4m in the 
| whole of the first quarter of 2007.  
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/01/22/todays-the-day-for-open-source-venture-funding/


Research: Open source M&A Comes of Age

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| Year  Deal volume     Significant deals
| 2007  30              Yahoo-Zimbra, Sourcefire-ClamAV, Citrix-XenSource, Red 
|                       Hat-MetaMatrix 
| 2006  22              Red Hat-JBoss, Oracle-Sleepycat
| 2005  15              Ingres carve-out, Oracle-Innobase, IBM-Gluecode
| 2004  3               Red Hat-Netscape Enterprise Business
| 2003  6               Novell-SUSE, Red Hat-Sistina
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http://linux.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/research-open-source-ma-comes-of-age/


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


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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