Waugh Partners just released the The Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report. The report was commissioned and executed by Waugh Partners, with the financial support of sponsors, NICTA, IBM and Fujitsu. The data was collected by online surveys conducted from October to December 2007. The industry survey was aimed at “companies that sell, support [...]

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Collaborative Thinking: Microsoft Continues To Fill SharePoint Social Gaps - Microsoft fills in the gaps of Sharepoint with NewsGator and Atlassian Confluence but is that good enough?
Wired: How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong - One Infinite Loop, Apple’s street address, is a programming in-joke — it refers to a routine that never [...]

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I was reading J onathan Swartz’s blog and saw this video with MySQL CEO Marten Mickos mentions that MySQL has about 50,000 downloads per day of which 1 in 1000 of them end up paying MySQL money.

…Let’s also say that of that 1800 users 10% of them share their experience with others that’s 657,000 users a year, so let’s cut that in half to be on the safe side, 328,500.

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Today Nokia announced their intention to acquire an open source tools manufacturer, Trolltech.
Trolltech is an open source company by virtue of their dual-licensing of the QT tool kit that is used by a number of products but probably most notably the KDE desktop. Though they do dual license and sell commercial proprietary products as well. [...]

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