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August 9, 2006 Digium, an open-source VoIP software maker, has received $13.2 million in first-round venture capital funding from Matrix Partners for the development of Asterisk. TAGS: Matrix Partners, open-source company, JBoss, open source, VoIP company, venture capital, Red Hat Inc., telecommunications, VoIP, software company

July 13, 2005 As Oracle, IBM and Microsoft ready the next competitive round, open-source alternatives start to make their mark. TAGS: database company, open-source company, Oracle Corp., open source, IBM Corp., database, Microsoft Corp.

April 5, 2005 Start-ups specializing in open source are speeding up an industrywide shift to subscription-model pricing. TAGS: open-source company, open source, Larry Ellison, software license, shift, maintenance, software company, Oracle Corp., fee, CEO

November 7, 2005 Venture money going to companies with an "open-source" plan is rising rapidly. Is that a good thing? TAGS: open source, Matrix Partners, open-source company, bubble, business model, investment, venture capital, community, business intelligence, software company, start-up, IBM Corp.

May 4, 2007 The start-up focused on e-mail and calendar software for servers adds support for the up-and-coming version of Linux. TAGS: Ubuntu, Ubuntu Linux, server software, open source, open-source company, GNOME, Red Hat Inc., Linux, open-source software, Mozilla Thunderbird, server, Java, Web browser, CEO, e-mail, Microsoft Corp.

June 4, 2007 Technical and legal pact calls for product interoperability and legal protections for common customers. TAGS: Xandros, Linux company, open-source company, Linux, GPL, Novell Inc., agreement, Microsoft Corp., open source

May 14, 2007 Company's more threatening stance spotlights its effort to pressure open-source firms to license its patents. TAGS: intellectual property, patent, open source, open-source company, open-source software, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc., Linux, software company

October 27, 2006 perspective CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says Larry Ellison's open-source move is part of a bigger transformation at Oracle. TAGS: Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., Borland Software Corp., Oracle Open World, open-source company, announcement, profit margin, Siebel Systems Inc., open source, PeopleSoft Inc., acquisition, CEO, database, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

February 13, 2006 Open-source software is being used to get the upper hand when competing against companies with proprietary software. TAGS: open source, open-source software, open-source company, conference, president, Microsoft Corp.

September 28, 2004 A former Microsoft executive and other tech bigwigs fund SourceLabs, an open-source start-up focused on maintenance and support. TAGS: BEA Systems Inc., industry veteran, open source, open-source software, chief architect, open-source company, middleware, MySQL, vice president, component, support, Dell, Microsoft Corp.

August 14, 2006 Zimbra shows off wiki as the start-up and its cohorts push into new areas and compete on features, not just price. TAGS: SugarCRM, open source, open-source company, LinuxWorld, desktop software, Wiki, vendor, collaboration, open-source software, software company, spreadsheet, document, start-up, Linux, database, Microsoft Corp.

February 1, 2007 Incoming CEO Harold Goldberg says he'll focus the PHP software company on big businesses and Web 2.0 start-ups. TAGS: Zend Technologies Ltd., PHP, open source, open-source community, open-source company, development tool, Web 2.0, Red Hat Inc., software company, CEO, IBM Corp., start-up

April 10, 2006 Red Hat's $350 million purchase of JBoss speeds up the collision between the once closed-off open-source world and entrenched software heavyweights. TAGS: JBoss, Red Hat Inc., ecosystem, BEA Systems Inc., open source, open-source company, acquisition, middleware, open-source software, Novell Inc., Oracle Corp., Linux, Java, IBM Corp., CEO

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