open source business

Enterpise Apps Today: "In the end, one of the main benefits to the OpenERP open source business applications suite is that you can start small by choosing only a module or two and freely add more at no extra costs later on.

That and the fact you can develop your own customized modules or take advantage of the development community's add-on module contributions."

IT World: "Business intelligence (BI) is one of those buzzphrases that sound super-cool, but are often misunderstood.

What is business intelligence and should you care? Do you need to drop a giant bucket of money on BI?"

eCRM Guide: "Pentaho uses an 'open core' model, with a core open source community edition and an enterprise edition that bundles proprietary features on top."

Opensource.com: "How do you develop a successful open source business that lasts? Of the more than 250,000 open source projects on SourceForge, few will be successful at that goal.

But one way they might think about how to do it is by doing it in reverse: What should an open source project or business not do?"

Computerworld UK: "The careers of few people have been so intertwined with the history of open source as that of Larry Augustin.

He was even present when the term “open source” was coined..."

Compiere from the Source: "Recently, Consona acquired Compiere. Is this a failure of Open Source business model"

Network World: "The appeal of business models based on open source software and middleware is increasing, and drawing some who previously argued against such solutions."

The VAR Guy: "Pentaho, the open source business intelligence company, generated record results in 1Q 2010, according to VP of Marketing Joe McGonnell.

Pentaho attributes much of its performance to a growing channel partner program."

Network World: "Talend is an open source data integration company that is a poster child for successful open source business models.

In just a few short years they have risen to be one of the up and coming stars in a 13b dollar market."

Hedge Fund Elliott Associates LP, which holds an 8.5% stake in Novell, offered to buy the rest of the company for about $1.8 billion on Tuesday, March 2, 2010.

This follows the Q1 financial report that showed year-over-year revenues were down.