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Barracuda Tries to Gobble-Up SourceFire
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| Now why do I focus on the marketing aspect of open source? After taking a
| look at the SourceFire 2007 Annual report I see some interesting things.
| According to their financials for last year they had revenue of 42.7 million
| dollars and sales and marketing costs of 25.8 million. That is 60% of revenue
| spent adding new customers. In contrast their cost of R&D is 34% of revenue.
| So controlling costs or at least helping leverage what they are spending
| should have the biggest impact on their profitability.
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http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/06/03/barracuda-tries-to-gobble-up-sourcefire/
Another new release for an important GPL-licensed project:
Openbravo Enhances Point of Sale Software with Launch of Openbravo POS 2.10
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| Enhancements to open source point of sale software include additional
| customer-facing functionality, localization features to handle
| country-specific taxes, IBM integration and further integration with
| Openbravo ERP
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080602006061&newsLang=en
Recent:
Software Application Vendor Openbravo Secures $12m in the Largest Ever Round
for Open Source ERP
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| Openbravo has developed open source software for enterprise resource planning
| (ERP), specifically for small and mid-sized enterprises (SME), where market
| adoption of ERPs is still low since proprietary players have traditionally
| underserved this market.
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/software-application-vendor-openbravo-secures,398375.shtml
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