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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. Inconceivable... by Zagadka · · Score: 4, Troll

    T-shirt sales can't pay developer's salaries?!?

    </sarcasm>

  2. good, kinda by teknopurge · · Score: 0, Troll

    These guys are victums of the "dot-com revolution". If they had quality products, and quality sales staff they would still be around.

    -teknopurge

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