Fear and Loathing in Open Source Marketing »

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
Hunter S. Thompson
Drupal recently made a deal with the devils (venture capitalists) by virtue of the a $7 million investment in Acquia. Acquia owns the Drupal brand (or at least legally they do). Drupal [...]

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Network Spaces: Revolution Computing’s Open Source Statistical Software »

This week was a big week for open source software with funding announcements for a number of companies including Alfresco open source document management), which closed $9 million in series C. GreenPlum (open source BI data warehousing) pulled in $27 million. My own company Zenoss nailed $11 million in series B too. Somewhat lost [...]

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Could Open Source Fuel the Next Bubble »

Greg sent me this article at the New York Times,"Silicon Valley Start-Ups Awash in Dollars, Again" and Stacy says (via Matt ) Balmer is hunting for Open Source Start-Ups.
"We will do some buying of companies that are built around open-source products," Ballmer said during an onstage interview at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
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