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Gartner Says Commercial Projects Will Drive 50% of Open Source Revenue

Posted by Kim Weins on August 24th, 2009 in Open Source Trends

Recently I’ve seen a lot of references to Gartner’s report “Predicts 2009: The Evolving Open-Source Software Model” which includes this key finding: “By 2012, at least 50% of direct commercial revenue attributed to open-source products or services will come from projects under a single vendor's patronage.” I’m not buying it. As of right now, the [...]

Will SpringSource Acquisition Make VMWare an Open Source Company?

Posted by Kim Weins on August 11th, 2009 in Open Source Trends

With news of the SpringSource acquisition by VMWare still reverberating around the blogosphere and twittersphere, many in the open source world are wondering whether VMWare will now be another large open source company.“Being an open source company” is partly about technology (providing products under open source licenses) and contributing to the open source community. However, [...]