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Open Source 2009: It’s the Economy, Stupid. Or is it?
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| Good news: Open source companies are alive and well.
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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7299/
Open-source VC investments: Time for payback
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| Venture capitalists have poured $3.2 billion into open-source companies since
| 1997, according to a new report from The 451 Group. It's about time we
| started delivering a return on that investment.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10217824-16.html
Recent:
Why Recession Is Causing Enterprises to Rethink Open-Source Strategy
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| Open-source software and middleware, which is now populating every part of
| modern data centers, has always had to fight a reputation—deserved or
| undeserved—of being simply too "Wild West" for many enterprises.
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| Not so anymore, Alfresco's general manager for the Americas, Matt Asay, told
| a near full-house audience in his opening remarks at the sixth annual Open
| Source Business Conference here at the Palace Hotel.
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| Alfresco, started up in 2005 by Documentum co-founder John Newton and John
| Powell, former chief operating officer of Business Objects, provides an
| enterprise-ready open-source CMS (content management system).
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Why-Recession-is-Causing-Enterprises-to-Rethink-Open-Source-Strategy-877743/?kc=rss
Related:
No Recession at Red Hat
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| It is flattering to be mentioned, Mr. Whitehurst said, but he noted that
| corporate customers and the industry benefit from what he called Red
| Hat’s “Switzerland status” — not being a province of one of the major powers
| in the technology industry.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/no-recession-at-red-hat/
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