Its a good idea. It would be nice to have that kind of a reference. Most open source companies are not publicly traded, so it might be difficult to include standard financial metrics. But a reference source for successes and failures would be very helpful.
It should be more in-depth that the "most active companies sidebar", though. For example, this was Yahoo Finance's most active sidebar for 2002-07-05:
The "most active" lists are eye-candy which are not paricularly helpful for analysis purposes. Tyco?!?! Elan?!?!?! There shouldn't be a plus sign on the same page as these dogs, much less on the same line.
By the way, this snapshot is a good indicator of how proprietary does not necessarily equal profitable .... RHAT 5.389 SUNW 5.326 ... unless, of course, you want to bring out the big guns... MSFT 54.03 +1.56 47.50 - 73.15 IBM 73.65 +3.14 66.10 - 126.39
So, I think a new section with a detailed analysis of open source projects, successful and unsuccessful, would be a great addition to the site. One of the success stories could be MySQL AB. For instance, they could tell us how they landed the Yahoo Finance account!
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Re:Was just wondering.
Posted by: DCallaghan on July 06, 2002 12:19 AMIt should be more in-depth that the "most active companies sidebar", though. For example, this was Yahoo Finance's most active sidebar for 2002-07-05:
Nasdaq
Price Change 52-wk Range
SUNW 5.326 +0.436 4.36 - 18.24
CSCO 13.77 +0.73 11.04 - 21.92
INTC 19.25 +1.50 16.26 - 36.78
ORCL 9.951 +0.401 7.251 - 20.00
AMAT 19.86 +1.87 13.295 - 27.95
NYSE
GE 29.05 +1.15 26.90 - 50.20
ELN 2.03 +0.32 1.31 - 62.85
TYC 13.22 +0.56 8.25 - 60.09
AOL 14.46 +0.40 12.04 - 53.30
NOK 15.11 +1.14 11.60 - 27.06
The "most active" lists are eye-candy which are not paricularly helpful for analysis purposes. Tyco?!?! Elan?!?!?! There shouldn't be a plus sign on the same page as these dogs, much less on the same line.
By the way, this snapshot is a good indicator of how proprietary does not necessarily equal profitable ....
RHAT 5.389
SUNW 5.326 ... unless, of course, you want to bring out the big guns...
MSFT 54.03 +1.56 47.50 - 73.15
IBM 73.65 +3.14 66.10 - 126.39
So, I think a new section with a detailed analysis of open source projects, successful and unsuccessful, would be a great addition to the site. One of the success stories could be MySQL AB. For instance, they could tell us how they landed the Yahoo Finance account!
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