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[News] Free/Open Source Software Turns Out to Be Goldmine

  • Subject: [News] Free/Open Source Software Turns Out to Be Goldmine
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:29:25 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Open Source - ripe for consolidation?

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| So, while the large parts of the financial world are in turmoil, there's 
| value here. More open source companies are being bought for more money. 
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10007114o-2000469549b,00.htm

Open-source funding day: Greenplum, Alfresco, Zenoss

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| The biggest chunk, $27 million, went to Greenplum, which develops business 
| intelligence software based on the open-source Bizgres software project; the 
| company's product is designed to help customers sift through data for useful 
| trends. New investors Meritech Capital, Sun Microsystems, and SAP Ventures 
| made the third-round investment, which also drew some from earlier investors.    
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http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9855403-39.html

So, there's no money in FOSS? It ruins the economy?


Yesterday:

Alfresco Gets Funding for Growth

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| There's obviously a lot of VC dosh sloshing around in the open source sector 
| at the moment; it's a pity that there aren't many UK players who might 
| benefit. Perhaps now would be a good time to launch some new free software 
| startups here.   
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=404&blogid=14


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/


Two days ago:

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/


Related:

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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