World’s Largest Open Source Content Management Software Company Names New CEO

So, does your company do open source? Really? I'm not talking about using open source. I'm asking if your company takes open source philosophy to heart by walking the walk. I doubt there's any decent- sized company that doesn't use open source. But how many do open source in a business setting? Does your company *do* open source, like, within?

Joomla, the open-source-based content management system that competes against WordPress, Drupal and others in the world of blog, website and intranet creation, has today taken a step up in the world of converged media.

How do you build one of the world's most popular open source content management systems?

Drupal founder and open source rock star Dries Buytaert tells all about how how he built the Drupal content management system community from his dorm room to a $20 million plus software company used by Fortune 500 companies.

Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open SourceOttawa-based software company Protecode has released a free version of its hosted open source scanning and licence management solution.

NUREMBERG, Germany and CUPERTINO, Calif., October 20, 2009 – Open-Xchange, the leading provider of open source groupware, and SugarCRM, the world's leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced a cooperation to integrate data from SugarCRM and Open-Xchange collaboration software.

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The world’s largest mobile enterprise has just joined the Linux Foundation as a Gold Member. The company in question is China Mobile, the largest and most valuable nationwide telecom enterprise in the world. With 570 million subscribers, it also has the largest user base of any such company.

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SugarCRM is the world’s largest open source CRM (customer relationship management) software. Founded in 2004, over 7,000 customers and more than half a million users rely on SugarCRM to execute marketing programs, grow sales, retain customers, and create custom business applications.

Today open source content management company MODX is launching a hosted cloud service to commercialize the product, much as Acquia and WordPress.com have done for Drupal and WordPress. MODX started out as a volunteer open source project in 2004, but also became a company in 2010 after its first user conference.