Geeks on the Way pour SugarCRM into Asterisk
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| Using both open source CRM software and a telephony platform, Geeks said it's
| able to speed up its sales and customer support departments in responding to
| customer problems.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=2107645447&rid=-50
Compiere launches 3.0 version of ERP offering
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| Open-source ERP vendor Compiere released version 3.0 of its platform on
| Tuesday, touting a flashy new Web interface and various performance
| improvements.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071204/tc_infoworld/93834
Gartner underhypes open source
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| I'm not sure who Gartner talks to when it puts together its famous "Hype
| Cycle" reports, but I'm finding it hard to believe that it talks with
| enterprises. I was reading through its "Hype Cycle for Open-Source Software,
| 2007" report, and was astounded to find out that I've been tricked by paying
| customers into believing that they were, well, paying.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9828364-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
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
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
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