I mentioned yesterday that the big money for established open source vendors went on M&A activity rather than venture funding in the third quarter.This is an indication of the maturity of the open source software market as open source vendors are beginning to reach a level where they either appear to be attractive acquisition targets [...]

Barracuda Networks publishes open source survey results. Compiere hires COO. Levanta updates Linux data center automation software. (and more)

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It used to be that many folks in open source, both developers and users, lamented that despite the innovative nature of their software, there wasn’t much progress coming from their main repositories and directories such as SourceForge.net and Freshmeat.net. There have been some efforts such as Google’s project hosting, Subversion development for the community from [...]

The figures originally reported here were preliminary and have been revised for a formal CAOS report to be published in the first half of 2009. In the interests of accuracy this data has now been removed. For a full assessment of VC funding in 2007 see this post.

Ingres acquires systems integrators. 3Com and Digium announce product partnership. DataDirect launches MySQL drivers. (and more)

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As previously mentioned by Raven, today is my first day at The 451 Group and I’ll now be blogging here at 451 CAOS Theory. For those of you who were subscribers to my previous blog, I’ll be bringing more of the same to 451 CAOS Theory, starting tomorrow with a look at the third quarter [...]