Boom Time for FOSS

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Article Source LinuxInsider
September 4, 2009, 4:00 am

The current economic recession may be pummeling companies around the globe, but amid all the dire reports and grim statistics littering what can only be compared to a bloody battlefield, one oft-cited exception appears to be still standing tall: free and open source software. That’s what the common discourse seems to suggest, at least, and there’s some anecdotal evidence to support it. For its fiscal quarter ending May 31, for example, Red Hat reported an 11 percent increase in revenue over that earned in the same quarter a year ago…

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