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Open-source companies log impressive growth in Q2 2009
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| Those "advocates" are funding the payrolls of a range of open-source
| companies. Here are just a few examples of those benefiting from this
| enterprise shift to open source:
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| * The VAR Guy (@thevarguy) reports that both xTuple and Sopera are
| profitable. While he doesn't comment on how much they're doing in sales,
| profitability is, in itself, a significant achievement...
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10282668-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Just finished: the final edition of the SME guide to open source
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| It has been an absolutely enjoyable activity to work in the context of the
| FLOSSMETRICS project with the overall idea of helping SMEs to adopt, and
| migrate to, open source and free software. My proposed approach was to create
| an accessible and replicable guide, designed to help both those interested in
| exploring what open source is, and in helping companies in the process of
| offering services and products based on OSS; now, two years later, I found
| references to the previous editions of the guide in websites across the
| world, and was delighted in discovering that some OSS companies are using it
| as marketing material to help prospective customers.
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http://carlodaffara.conecta.it/?p=281
Linden Lab Worth $658-700 Million, 2009 Revenues Forecast at $100 Million -
Analyst
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| You can download the full NeXt Up report on Linden Lab from the SharesPost
| site after creating a free account. For a company analysis, it actually makes
| for interesting reading. (Even the Tea Crate Rebellion and the War of the
| Jessie Wall rate a mention in the company history section.) More salient to
| Internet business watchers, however, is the analyst's estimate of Linden's
| revenue and profit, with the former forecast to hit $150 million in 2011, and
| profit (i.e. "Net Income") to reach $35 million that same year. (See chart
| above.) NeXtUp uses these numbers and related virtual world business sales
| (such as Disney's purchase of Club Penguin for $350 million) to arrive at
| that half billion-plus valuation figure.
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http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/700-million-world.html
Related:
Second Life Swapping Engines At 40,000 Feet
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| In order increase the capacity of the system from 100,000 concurrent
| users to tens of millions concurrent users, the company is looking
| to increase the number of servers to 10,000 while making sure the
| software remains responsive to all users. Joe Miller, VP of platform
| and technology development for Linden Lab, likens this operation to
| swapping engines at 40,000 feet.
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http://linux.about.com/b/a/257654.htm
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