The long tail of open source
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| This geographic long tail has important implications for open source. In
| enterprise software a mantra is “Think Global, Act Local”. This “open source
| long tail” makes me think the mantra for open source should be “Think Global,
| Act Global” and “Think Long Tail Atoms”.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?RSS&entryid=486
Olliance Think Tank 2008 - OSS Comes of Age
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| This is a unique event on the open source calendar, well-attended by numerous
| entrepreneurs, executives, industry experts and thought leaders in commercial
| open source.
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http://blog.opensolutionsalliance.org/archives/101-Olliance-Think-Tank-2008-OSS-Comes-of-Age.html
Open Source Think Tank Meetings: Ross Turk and the State of the Art of the
SourceForge Marketplace
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| The 2008 Open Source Think Tank was a great chance to meet in person great
| people in the open source business community, a must for whom interested in
| professional networking.
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http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/02/10/open-source-think-tank-meetings-ross-turk-and-the-state-of-the-art-of-the-sourceforge-marketplace/
Some photos from SCALE:
Ars at SCALE: the exhibit hall
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| Many prominent open-source vendors and organizations had booths in the
| exhibit hall at the Southern California Linux Expo this past weekend. I made
| the rounds, picked up some nifty goodies, and got a chance to meet a bunch of
| really cool software developers. This photo tour will give you a glimpse of
| what was going on.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/02/12/ars-at-scale-the-exhibit-hall
Related:
European spend on open source software hits 22bn Euros
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| Rishab Ghosh, a senior researcher at the UN University in Maastricht,
| will tell the Open Ireland conference in Dublin that the spend in the
| US on free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) stands at 36bn
| Euros and accounts for 20pc of software spend in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single7850
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
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
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
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