The Unsurprising Surprise of Open Source M&A
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| There must be something going around, something in the water. That was how
| one commenter put it to me this week. How else to explain the rash of open
| source acquisitions? From MySQL to Covalent to Trolltech, the appetite for
| open source vendors appears to be insatiable - even when the acquiring firm
| is itself an open source play, as is the case in the Covalent deal.
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http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/01/31/the-unsurprising-surprise-of-open-source-ma/
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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
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
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