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This is old-ish news, but the acquisition of companies behind opensource software by big behemoths continues with the acquisition of Jabber by Cisco. Things might be shifting, though, due to both opensource and SaaS as catalysts for change. OpenSource, it can be SaaS and OpenSource.
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He was previously an investor at Spark Capital, led M&A at AppDynamics and Cisco, and was an investor at The Blackstone Group. Successful companies such as Hashicorp, JFrog, Elastic, MongoDB and Gitlab have demonstrated the power of opensource models. This enables opensource companies to acquire a vast, free user base.
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There have also been a few big exits in the space over the years, including Duo Security, which was acquired by Cisco for $2.35 ForgeRock was founded in 2010, but its roots go back even further to an open-source single sign-on project known as OpenSSO that was created by Sun Microsystems in 2005. billion in 2018.
Yang was an R&D engineer at Cisco focusing on optimization algorithms for networking, while Merlino was a server software developer at Yahoo! But for what it’s worth, Imply claims to have over 150 customers, including Atlassian, Cisco ThousandEyes, InterContinental Exchange, and Reddit. That’s where … Imply comes in.”
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Rami shared how his organization works in a transparent way, opensourcing its program materials and processes. I then modeled creating a thank you video with each team sharing a few words about how they use the videos and saying thank you to Cisco and FLIP Camera in a fun way.
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She's built partnerships with Cisco, Symantec, Intuit, Dell, Seagate, Adobe and dozens of other socially responsible companies. It is also a good place for people in nonprofit technology startups, many of them opensource projects, to meet with the nonprofit technology community. Gayle does other work as well.
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