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Venture Money in Open Source

Posted by samzenpus on from the money-fixes-everything dept.

prostoalex writes "Interesting statistics from VentureOne and New York Times on open source venture capital investments: "In 1999 and 2000, according to VentureOne, venture capitalists invested $714 million in 71 open-source companies." Even more interesting stats: "Most of those projects collapsed." The article talks about both successes and failures: Red Hat, TurboLinux, JBoss."

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  1. Which is it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    So is RedHat a success or a failure?

  2. Slashdot Extra Bonus Round! by xenocide2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The article talks about both successes and failures: Red Hat, TurboLinux, JBoss."

    For an extra 200 points, match which label goes with which product!

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