WordPress.com Creator Raises $29.5M
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| While we were chatting, he let it slip that Automattic had raised a whopping
| $29.5 million in a Series B Round of funding, including a strategic
| investment from The New York Times Co. Previous investors True Ventures,
| Polaris Ventures, and Radar Ventures also invested in this round. (Full
| disclosure: both Automattic and GigaOM are backed by True Ventures.)
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http://gigaom.com/2008/01/22/wordpresscom-creator-raises-29m/
Woohoo.
Zenoss Achieves 500,000 Download Milestone and Announces $11 Million of New
Investment to Continue Rapid Growth
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| Zenoss Inc., the leading commercial open source network and systems
| management software provider, today announced the achievement of a series of
| key company milestones including an $11 million round of financing, 500,000
| downloads of its flagship product and a tenfold annual increase in its
| commercial customer base. The company enters 2008 with tremendous momentum
| towards its mission to deliver powerful yet affordable IT management software
| leveraging the advantages of open source.
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http://www.zenoss.com/news/archive/zenosspressrelease.2008-01-21.2106032992
What is an open source company really worth?
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| My own theory is based on cycles of boom, bust and growth. People will make
| up excuses to pay anything when there’s a boom on. They will pay nothing when
| a bust is on. It’s only when we get beyond both that we find out the truth.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1916
Open source IPOs - take two
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| Of course the potential of any open source IPOs at all in the next couple of
| years will be dependent on market conditions, as well as the increased M&A
| activity.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/01/23/open-source-ipos-take-two/
Days ago:
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/
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/
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