Feb 26
Las 7 más grandes adquisiciones del Open Souce
El software libre/open no da dinero?
Algunos piensan que el software libre/open no da dinero, pues miren las más grandes compras de empresas del software libre:
1. Sun buys MySQL, $1 billion, 2008
Sun now has their hands on the world’s most widely used open source database.
2. Red Hat buys Cygnus Solutions, $675 million, 1999
Red Hat started the open source acquisition race early when they bought Cygnus Solutions, providers of open source software support.
3. Citrix buys XenSource, $500 million, 2007
Considering how hot virtualization is right now, we can see why Citrix bought XenSource, the company behind the Xen virtualization software.
4. Yahoo buys Zimbra, $350 million, 2007
Yahoo already have their own email services, and with Zimbra they got an integrated email, messaging and collaboration software.
5. Red Hat buys JBoss, $350 million, 2006
Red Hat strengthened their SOA offerings by buying the JBoss Java application server.
6. Novell buys SUSE, $210 million, 2003
Novell got their own Linux distribution by buying SUSE.
7. Nokia buys Trolltech, $153 million, 2008
Trolltech is the company behind the Qt GUI framework which is used by the popular Linux desktop environment KDE.
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