Dec 05
From an article at the Computer Business Review Online.
“The Linux operating system is the recipient of 75% of all vendor investment in open source software, according to a new report from the Harvard Business School, which also indicates that vendor support for open source is primarily motivated by boosting their proprietary offerings.”
A breakdown of the money being pumped into Open Source Software from the Harvard Business School report, between 1995 and 2005.
Linux: $1,500 million
Firefox: $317 milion
OpenOffice: $76 million
Mysql: $48 million
PHP: $24 million
JBOSS: $10 million
