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The Economy is Driving More Prospects to Open Source
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| Our latest marketing metrics show a 61% increase in inbound leads from Q2 to
| Q3 of this year. Q4 looks to be on track to continue this strong growth.
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http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/11/11/open-source-business-models-sun-and-the-open-source-funnel-marketing/
Neil Young Visits Sun With His Linc Volt Car
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| We had a surprise visitor to the Sun campus in Menlo Park, CA yesterday.
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http://blogs.sun.com/ontherecord/entry/neil_young_brings_linc_volt
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
Trialing the open source franchise model
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| It appears that a group of European suppliers are giving it a go, at
| least on a trial basis.
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| The Open Forum Europe (TOF-e) has been set up to run until the end
| of May to "test the commercial viability of a framework that will
| allow for more confidence and commercial clarity of the whole
| Open Source process".
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/02/trialing_the_op.html
EU report on FLOSS: "FLOSS saves money"
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070112025016466
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