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» Open source business model reaching tipping point | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

2008/01/24/1050

RTFA: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7674

Last week Sun acquired MySQL for $1 billion, following on other major open source acquisitions-XenSource (Citrix), JBoss (Red Hat) and Zimbra (Yahoo). This week several funding announcements point to a tipping point for the open source business model.
Automattic, publisher of the open source blogging platform WordPress (which we use for ZDNet blogs) raised $29.5 million in a Series B Round with funding, True Ventures, Polaris Ventures, Radar Ventures and the New York Times.
Greenplum, a developers of business intelligence software based on the open-source Bizgres software project, garnered $27 million series C investment from Meritech Capital, Sun and SAP Ventures.

Now that you mention it, a lot of open source companies have been turning out to possess amazing value.

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InfoWorld Special Report 91650 Archives

2007/09/17/1115

RTFA: http://www.infoworld.com/archives/t.jsp?N=s&V=9165…

Selected by InfoWorld Test Center editors and reviewers, these first annual Bossies celebrate the best open source software available for the enterprise. From CRM and ERP to OSes and middleware to networking, storage, and security software, our 36 winners prove that if your business is willing and your IT staff is ready, there’s an open source solution that’s able.

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