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Jan
11
2008
Here come the open source IPOs
Posted by The 451 Group on Fri 11 Jan 2008 12:09 UTC
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Fortune magazine has published a list of its hot IPO tips for 2008. Three out of the five - MySQL, Ingres and SugarCRM - are open source companies, while another - Parallels - is an open source project sponsor (for the record, the other Fortune tip is ExactTarget). Here’s a look at Fortune’s assessment of the four open source-related vendors, together with a quick 451 CAOS Theory view, and a terrible pun.

I should probably state for the record that I have no knowledge of …

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