Posts Tagged ‘numbers’

Open Source Conferences Are Big Businesses

April 29th, 2010 Admin
Recently, we summed up some of the headlines from DrupalCon in San Francisco, the annual conference where thousands of people gather to discuss Drupal,  the fast-rising open source content management system that OStatic itself is based on.

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Open Source Conferences Are Big Businesses

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Canonical Announces 12 Million Ubuntu Users, Google Makes a Comeback

April 9th, 2010 Admin
Lots of Ubuntu news this week with the second beta released for Lucid Lynx, a switch back to Google as the default search provider , and an announcement that Canonical estimates 12 million Ubuntu users around the world. But how do they get those numbers, and why the “flapping” between search providers? It’s notoriously difficult to do the counting up for distribution users.

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OpenOffice.org 3.2: 10 Years in the Making

February 12th, 2010 Admin
If you look back on the history of OpenOffice.org, it makes the 3.2 release that came out on Thursday the 11th even more impressive.

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OpenOffice.org 3.2: 10 Years in the Making

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Making Thunderbird Financially Sustainable: How it Could Work

February 12th, 2010 Admin
Mozilla Messaging is looking forward to a big year in 2010 including Thunderbird 3.1 and figuring out how to make the project financially sustainable. Making Thunderbird better is the easier part. Figuring out how to make money as a project is another story entirely.

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Making Thunderbird Financially Sustainable: How it Could Work

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