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Bucking the trend, handful of open source players attract VC funding
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| Talend, which develops open source data integration software including Open
| Studio, this week announced it secured $12 million from investors Balderton
| Capital, an early investor in MySQL, and existing investor AGF Private
| Equity. This brings the firm’s total funding to more than $20 million.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3349
Recent:
Open source ECM player takes on funding, swaps out CEO
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| Nuxeo, the French open source content management vendor, has taken on £1.7m
| in a Series A funding round led by OTC Asset Management. It also announced
| that founder and CEO Stefane Fermigier has stepped up to the chairman role,
| while Eric Barroca has taken over as CEO.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2008/11/open_source_ecm_1.html
Zimbra co-founder invests in Dimdim’s open source web meetings
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| Dharmaraj says he put his money into Dimdim because its technology
| complements Zimbra’s. Both offer open source software for different aspects
| of collaboration. Zimbra — which Dharmaraj sold to Yahoo for $350 million
| last year, and which he continues to lead from within Yahoo — offers a
| desktop client that incorporates email, documents, task management and more.
| Dimdim provides a basic suite of web meeting features which you can use for
| free (making it a more affordable alternative to web meetings products like
| WebEx and GoToMeeting).
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http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/21/zimbra-co-founder-invests-in-dimdims-open-source-web-meetings/
SpringSource Announces $15 Million Series B Round of Financing
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| SpringSource, the company behind Spring, the de facto standard in enterprise
| Java, and a leading provider of infrastructure software, today announced it
| has closed a $15 million round of financing...
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http://www.springsource.com/node/393
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
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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