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Opengear Continues Record Growth by Using Open Source Software to Disrupt Console Server Marketplace

Opengear (www.opengear.com),a leading provider of next-generation console server and KVM over IP solutions,today announced record revenue and rapid expansion. Like many disruptive open source vendors, Opengear is growing prosperously and profitably in the face of the global financial crisis. Opengear reports a doubling of sales and an increase of staff numbers by 30% against comparable period in 2008.

http://opengear.com/News-PR090825.html

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Moving Beyond the First Firefox Billion

But there's a problem. Surprising as it may seem, many people have never heard of Firefox, whereas they may well have come across references to Internet Explorer – or even used it before on school or work PCs. This means that the huge, potential opportunity for Firefox that this offer by Microsoft represents could be wasted. Indeed, I suspect that Microsoft is well aware of this fact, which is why it felt it could make what seems like a fairly generous proposal without risking too much in practice.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/moving-beyond-first-firefox-billion