Articles tagged ‘venturecapital’

Silicon Valley is chock-full of Web 2.0 startups today. And these startups are using open source big-time.

Alolita Sharma recently attended the first ever iPhoneDevCamp in San Francisco. 400 developers, artists, users and technology innovators had assembled together to hack and invent cool ways to use Apple's new gadget. She had a chance to talk with one of the key organizers of this event, William Hurley. "Whurley", as he is affectionately known, is an open source die-hard and leader in the "BarCamp" movement, redefining the way technology conferences are held. Here's what he had to say.

Open Source is tossing the $2.5 billion dollar enterprise content management market on its head. Let’s follow the new money trail.

As open source software matures into adolescence, we must surmount hurdles of our own making.

Many venture capitalists (VCs) are starting to get excited because they see that OSS can form the basis for a profitable ROI.

Google, the world's smartest search engine company, is on the eve of going public and Wall Street is going googlemanic. Google could not have done it without top technology, user loyalty, good profits and infrastructure powered by Open Source.