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Commercial Open Source Firms Get VC Money

InformationWeek reports on a year-to-date increase in VC funds flowing to commercial open source companies.

The money went toward 20 deals, of which 17 had a publicly disclosed value, resulting in an average deal size of $12 million. "The first quarter of 2008 was the most successful quarter in history in terms of open source vendors raising venture capital funding," writes 451 Group analyst Matthew Aslett. By comparison, 11 deals with disclosed value brought in $100 million in the first quarter of 2007.
Undoubtedly, the VCs are seeking monetary ROI with their funding.

posted by Noel Le @ 11:30 AM | Free Culture Movement

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They might want ROI? No shit!

Of course, Open Source simply allows greater productivity and efficiency just as science rapidly outpaced witchcraft, so at least some of them shouldn't be disappointed.

Of course, ~ 90% of businesses fail in their first year, I don't think open source is some magic panacea fixing that.

Posted by: Spumco at April 2, 2008 11:45 AM

Noel:

Don't I remember several posts where you'd indicated that open source could never make money?

What happened with that?

E_F

Posted by: e_f at April 13, 2008 7:32 PM








 
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