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Zend, The PHP Leader, Gets Another $9 Million In Funding

May 18th, 2010 Admin
Cupertino, California-based Zend Technologies, which produces products for developing, deploying and managing business PHP applications, today announced that it has received $9 million in venture funding led by Greylock Partners (a current investor), with participation from other Zend investors including Azure Capital Partners, Index Ventures, Intel Capital, SAP Ventures, and Walden. We’ve covered the company’s successful funding history before , and its rise alongside the increasing popularity of PHP. According to the company, Zend now has more than 1,000,000 registered users.

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VC Funding for FLOSS Dips in 2009: Rebound in 2010?

April 7th, 2010 Admin
The 451 Group’s Matthew Aslett reports that venture capitol funding is down for open source vendors in 2009, as expected .

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Pentaho Secures $7 Million in Funding, Looks Toward the Future

March 31st, 2010 Admin
Open source business intelligence (BI) software vendor Pentaho has raised a cool $7 million in fourth-round funding, bringing it’s total funding to around $32 million.

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PHPWomen Pairs with FOSS Projects to Encourage Diversity

March 4th, 2010 Admin
The topic of the difficulties women face in the open source community comes up often.

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Defective by Design is Defective

January 29th, 2010 Admin
Once again the Defective by Design have sprung into action to denounce another product from Apple, and once again nobody really cares. Defective by Design is a marketing campaign sponsored by the Free Software Foundation. While the FSF does plenty of good work, DBD is increasingly out of touch with the majority of users.

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