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- Sun Microsystems provides licenses and supports open sources, such as JAVA platform and Solaris OS. | - Sun Microsystems provides licenses and supports open sources, such as JAVA platform and Solaris OS. | ||
| − | Scriptics | + | Scriptics/ Ajuba Solutions |
| + | - [http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=34120 Ajuba Solutions, Inc.] (BusinessWeek) | ||
| + | - Ajuba Solutions is a private company. | ||
| + | - Ajuba Solutions provides solutions for automating, customizing, and managing B2B relationships over the Internet. | ||
| + | - John Ousterhout, the founder of Scriptics, designed Tcl, a scripting tool. | ||
Lucid Inc. | Lucid Inc. | ||
| + | - [http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~takizmi/cs488/Lucid_Programming%20Environments.pdf J. Foderaro, "Programming Environment," ACM SIGPLAN Lisp Pointers, vol1, Issue4, pp30-31, 1987.] (Survey of Common Lisp) | ||
| + | - Lucid's product is Lisp IDE. | ||
| + | - Lucid went bankrupt in 1994 | ||
Revision as of 07:50, 17 September 2008
Companies of open sources (What have they done? What is their business model? Are they public? etc)
Red Hat
- Red Hat, Inc. (Google Finance) - Red Hat is a public company. - Red Hat provides open source Linux kernel which is free. - Red Hat sells customer support and training for open source software.
Linuxcare/ Levanta
- Linuxcare, Inc. (Google Finance) - RIP, Levanta (Linux.com) - Linuxcare is a public company. - Linuxcare is the first major Linux support company. - Levanta laid off all employees on March 31, 2008.
Sun Microsystems
- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Google Finance) - Sun Microsystems is a public company. - Sun Microsystems provides network infrastructure. - Sun Microsystems provides licenses and supports open sources, such as JAVA platform and Solaris OS.
Scriptics/ Ajuba Solutions
- Ajuba Solutions, Inc. (BusinessWeek) - Ajuba Solutions is a private company. - Ajuba Solutions provides solutions for automating, customizing, and managing B2B relationships over the Internet. - John Ousterhout, the founder of Scriptics, designed Tcl, a scripting tool.
Lucid Inc.
- J. Foderaro, "Programming Environment," ACM SIGPLAN Lisp Pointers, vol1, Issue4, pp30-31, 1987. (Survey of Common Lisp) - Lucid's product is Lisp IDE. - Lucid went bankrupt in 1994
