Paula Hunter’s Comments

• Jun 30th, 2010 @ 1:02pm

  Acquisition curbs the quantity of large players

  on The Lack Of A Billion Dollar Pureplay Open Source Software Company Shows The Market Is Working Properly
  MySQL, Sleepycat, Xen, to name a few were open source companies that were acquired by multi-source companies before they grew too big to be affordable. Who knows if these and others that were acquired would have ever reached the $1B mark, but as long as they keep getting snatched up, it lessens the chances we will see more.