Eight open-source trading history

Some time ago, InfoWorld's Test Center announced the awards during the year open source-related 5: Best open source applications, the best open source application development software, best open source software, the best and the best open source networking software source platforms and middleware. This article describes the history of 8 major trading revenue.

2008 Sun 10 billion acquisition of MySQL

Sun Description: Since its inception in 1982, Sun pioneered the open standards for interoperability, heterogeneous and participation ideas. These ideas have borne fruit in the world.

About MySQL: MySQL is the most successful open source products 8 one. You are now visiting sites, eight are used by MySQL.

1999 Red Hat 6.75 billion acquisition of Cygnus Solutions

About Red Hat: See the " breakdown of the nine major open source event in history "in the Red Hat established.

Cygnus Solutions Description: originally Cygnus Support, the John Gilmore, Michael, David Henkel-Wallace in 1989, information technology company founded to provide commercial support for free software. The company slogan is: "Making free software affordable".

2007 Citrix 5 billion acquisition of XenSource

Citrix (Citrix) Description: It is a former IBM developers 埃德亚科布 Church was established in 1989 in Texas, the main provider of server, desktop virtualization, networking, SaaS and cloud computing services.

About XenSource: XenSource co-founder Ian Pratt, Senior Lecturer at Cambridge University. Xen is an open source his VMM-led projects. Xen 2003 publishing the first version. October 22, 2007, Citrix acquired XenSource.

2009 VMware 4.2 billion acquisition of Spring Source

VMware Overview: Global leader in virtualization solutions company.

Spring Framework Description: In the October 2002 issue of Rod Jahnson book: "Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development", the emergence of the Spring framework of the prototype. June 2003, Spring framework under the open source Apache 2.0 license.

Spring in mind:

• 1.J2EE should be more simple.
• 2. To use the interface instead of using the class, is the better programming practices. Spring will use the complexity of the interface is almost reduced to zero.
• 3. To provide a better JavaBean application configuration framework.
• 4. More emphasis on object-oriented design, rather than existing technologies such as J2EE.
• 5. Minimize unnecessary exception capture.
• 6. Make the application easier to test.

2007 Yahoo 3.5 billion acquisition of Zimbra

Yahoo Profile: the world's leading portal, is involved in the search engine, e-mail, news and so on.

About Zimbra: Zimbra is a professional email software provider, offers Zimbra Desktop email management software. Zimbra provides brand and mobile e-mail software includes calendar functions, and offline capabilities. The company has 200 education industry, commerce and the Internet service provider partners, including Comcast Corporation. The company about 900 million users to the brand's e-mail service.

2006, Red Hat 3.5 billion acquisition of JBoss
About JBoss: JBoss is the world's joint efforts of developers, one based on open source J2EE application server. It is a management EJB container and server support EJB 1.1, EJB 2.0 and EJB3.0 specification.

2003 Novell 2.1 billion acquisition of SUSE

Novell Introduction: the world's most powerful network systems companies.

About SUSE: SUSE Linux is Germany's most famous release,around the world also enjoy 

high reputation. Developed by SUSE YaST package management system is also cri

tically acclaimed. SUSE Linux has always been known for beautiful user interface.

 SUSE majority of users are in Europe.

2008 Nokia 1.53 billion acquisition of Trolltech

About Nokia: the world's leading mobile communications company. Smart phones, mobile phones, computers, PDAs, mobile phone operating system (symbian, maemo, meego), software.

About Trolltech: Trolltech is Haavard Nord (CEO) and Eirik Chambe-Eng (President) founded in 1994.Its two main products: Qt and Qtopia

Editor's Postscript:

In fact, there are many large open source in the history of the transaction, 

but neither external "price tag." For example:

• In 2005 Oracle acquired InnoDB;
• In 2006 Oracle acquired SleeepyCat;
• 2007, Apple acquired CUPS;
• 2007 Sourcefire acquired ClamAV;
• SpringSource acquired Covalent Technologies 2008

If you know of open source in the history of other transactions, may wish to note in the

 comments.

Source: Bole online submission, the original link .