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Great Bridge Out; Caldera in Trouble

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the black-armband dept.

tim_maroney writes: "CNET's news.com gives us a pair of open source disaster movies today. Great Bridge, an open source database maker which refused a bid from Red Hat earlier this year, will lay off 38 of 41 employees and close its doors. Caldera, a seller of Linux and UNIX versions, announced layoffs, plummeting revenues, and a reverse stock split intended to allow it to be relisted. Not a happy day for fans of open source business models."

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  1. Re:Open Source is not a business model! by sydb · · Score: 3, Funny
    Open Source is a fairy story.


    And you are a troll.

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  2. those poor 3 people by macsox · · Score: 5, Funny

    so they're laying off 38 of 41 staff and closing the doors? someday, open source archaeologists will reopen those doors and find their three skeletons surrounded by mountain dew cans . . .

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    1. Re:those poor 3 people by FatOldGoth · · Score: 3, Funny

      Makes perfect sense. They're just leaving behind a skeleton staff.

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      I would be a paid subscriber if Taco and Hemos weren't such cunts