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2013

2013 Open Source Survey

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2012

2012 Open Source Survey

Survey results from the 6th Annual Future of Open Source survey, led by North Bridge Venture Partners.

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2011

2011 Open Source Survey

Results from the 2011 Future of Open Source Survey, presented at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, CA.

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2010

2010 Open Source Survey

The results of North Bridge Venture Partners 2010 Future of Open Source survey were released at the Computerworld Open Source Business Conference.

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2009

2009 Open Source Survey

Survey results from 2009 Future of Open Source survey, led by North Bridge Venture Partners.

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Essential Reading

Big Companies Open Up to Open-Source Software

The use of open-source software is becoming more prevalent at big companies for reasons including ease of innovation and cutting the time to get products to market. More than 50% of the software...read more

Future of Open Source Survey Points to Cloud and Mobile Opportunities

The annual Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), sponsored by Computerworld, is underway in San Francisco this week, and, as usual at the conference, Northbridge Venture Partners has released its...read more

Why the cloud can't be separated from open source

Open source wouldn't exist without the Internet -- so perhaps it was inevitable that open source would get mashed up with cloud computing. It's been that way from the start. Since the very beginning...read more

Open Source Drives Software Innovation

It’s exciting to see the evolution of Open Source evident in findings in our Future of Open Source survey over the past five years. Open Source has now moved beyond the tipping point it reached last...read more

What's New

03/15/2013

2013 Future of Open Source Survey...

The seventh annual Future of Open Source Survey is open to the general public today. Black Duck... more »

03/26/2012

Cloud and Innovation Driving Use...

This blog was originally published by SandHill.com. See it at the source at: http://sandhill.co... more »

03/19/2012

Future of Open Source Keynote...

North Bridge and Black Duck lead the Future of Open Source Keynote Panel at OSBC 2012 The Futur... more »

03/18/2012

Survey says: Open-source software...

Once viewed in some quarters as a fringe movement and unreliable, open-source software is now a... more »

03/18/2012

Survey says: Open-source software...

Source: Dana Gardner/ZDNet: Briefings Direct Once viewed in some quarters as a fringe movement... more »

03/17/2012

MASSTLC Rapid Development &...

Join Michael Skok, General Partner, North Bridge, Mike Rowley, CTO Active Endpoints and other i... more »

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  • Cloud Computing Open Source

    • 2012 Cloud Leadership Dinner & MassTLC Summit - Boston

      • David Patrick, CEO, Apperian; Lora Kratchounova, Principal, Scratch Marketing + Media
      • David Patrick, CEO, Apperian; Scott Crenshaw; SVP Strategy, CMO, Acronis; Tom Erickson, CEO, Acquia
      • Carlos Montero Luque, CTO, Apperian; Michael Skok, Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners
      • Carlos Montero Luque, CTO, Apperian; Michael Skok, Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners; David Plunkett, EVP Development, Newforma, Inc.
      • Brad Steele, Business Development Manager, Amazon Web Services; Scott Crenshaw, SVP Strategy, CMO, Acronis; Bob Batcheler, EVP - Strategy, Newforma, Inc.
      • Michael Davies, Chairman, Endeavour Partners; Scott Klein, VP, Engineering, Aquto
      • Arun Agarwal, Co-Founder, SilverLining Systems; Scott Crenshaw, SVP Strategy, CMO, Acronis
      • Clay Booma, Co-Founder, Innovation Councils; Peter Manca, CEO, Egenera
      • Jeremy Wright, COO, Corporate Focus; Brad Steele, Business Development Manager, Amazon Web Services
      • David McFarlane, CEO, Akiban Technologies Inc; Mark Taber, CEO, Active Endpoints; Elena Grinev, VP, Delivery, cloudTP
      • Scott Crenshaw, SVP Strategy, CMO, Acronis, Christine Nolan, Director of Communities, MassTLC
      • Bill Drury, VP Products and Solutions Development, Stratus Technologies, Jackie Ganim-Defalco, Business Advisor, Marketing Recon
      • Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst, Interarbor Solutions, LLC; David Plunkett, EVP Development, Newforma, Inc.; Chris Schoettle, President & COO, Enservio; Clay Booma, Co-Founder, Innovation Councils; John Humphreys, VP Marketing, Egenera; Chris Gervais, VP, Engineering, Enservio, Inc.
      • Jeremy Wright, COO, Corporate Focus; Peter Guagent, VP, Products, Acquia; Bob Bacheler, EVP - Strategy, Newforma, Inc.; Christine Nolan, Director of Communities, MassTLC; Ori Herrnstadt, CTO, Akiban; Tim Kounadis, Marketing Director, IBM
      • Brett Adam, CTO, SVP Engineering, rPath, Inc.; Brad Steele, Biz Dev Manager, Amazon Web Services; Brian Reagan, VP of Product Marketing, Actifio; Lou Guercia, CEO, Scribe Software; Joe Kinsella, Entrepreneur in Residence, North Bridge VP; Andrew Kenney, VP, Platform Engineering, Acquia; Lora Kratchounova, Principal, Scratch Marketing + Media
      • Peter Manca, CEO, Egenera; Guest; Scott Klein, VP, Engineering, Aquto; Bill Drury, VP Products and Solutions Dev., Stratus Technologies; Jay Seaton, CMO, GlassHouse Technologies; Mark Taber, CEO, Active Endpoints
      • Adam Berrey, CTO, SVP Engineering, Clinical Future, Tom Erickson, CEO, Acquia; Jeff Whatcott, CMO, Brightcove; Carlos Montero Luque, CTO, Apperian; Elena Grinev, VP, Delivery, cloudTP; David McFarlane, CEO, Akiban Technologies Inc.
      • Peter McKay, CEO, Desktone; David Patrick, CEO, Apperian; Scott Crenshaw, SVP Strategy, CMO, Acronis; Cory von Wallenstein, CTO, Dyn; Michael Skok, Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners; Michael Davies, Chairman, Endeavour Partners; Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director, THINKstrategies
      • Michael Skok presenting Future of Cloud Computing slides
      • North Bridge Cloud Computing Leadership Dinner
      • Michael J Skok on stage with Paul Sonderegger, Sr. Director Analytics, Oracle at the MassTLC Cloud Summit
      • Michael J Skok Presenting at the MassTLC Cloud Summit
      • MassTLC Cloud Summit 2012 “Moving from theory to practice” tops 200 in audience at Oracle headquarters in Burlington, MA

    • 2012 Cloud Leadership Dinner - San Francisco

      • Cary Breese, GenieDB; David Husak, Plexxi Inc.
      • A toast to the Future of Cloud Computing
      • Michael Skok, NBVP; Lou Guercia, Scribe Software; David McFarlane, Akiban
      • Andrew Lee, Corey Scobie, Bill Platt and John Higgins
      • Adam Berrey, David Deeths, Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco, Michael Torto
      • A view into the Dinner
      • Peter Cohen, AWS and Phil Kirk, Cisco
      • Daniel Lopez Ridruejo, founder of BitRock and Erica Brescia, CEO of BitRock
      • Henry Ancona, Gautam Gupta and Frederic Hanika
      • Dante Malagrino and Paul Dul of Embrane; Jerry Chen, VMware
      • GigaOM Structure Panel featuring Dante Malagrino and Jonathan Heiliger

    • 2011 Cloud Leadership Dinner - Boston

      • Collaborators Recognized in presentation
      • Michael Skok welcomes group
      • Tom Erickson, CEO Acquia & David Baeza, Apperian
      • Chris Scoettle, Akamai & Karl Wirth, Apptegic
      • Michael Skok has a toast with David Friend, Prasad Thammineni and Bill Drury
      • Don Bulens, CEO Unidesk with Michael Simon, CEO Logmein & Chris Midgley, Unidesk
      • Eric Egertson, ActiveEndpoints & Chris Brookins, Acquia
      • Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco, George Nichols and Andres Rodriguez
      • Don Bulens, Unidesk & Tom Erickson, Acquia
      • Highlights of the Future of Cloud Survey
      • Adam Berrey, EIR North Bridge raises a question
      • What's in the Future?
      • Keynote remarks from Peter Cohen, Amazon
      • Table hosted by David McFarlane, Akiban
      • Karl Wirth, Colleen Smith, Michael Simon, Prasad Thamminen
      • Peter Guagenti,Peter Cohen,Andres Rodrigues,Chris Midgely,Mark Taber,Jim Moran
      • Table hosted by Tom Erickson & Adam Berrey
      • Table hosted by Ron Pruett
      • Table hosted by Michael Skok

    • 2011 Mass TLC Cloud Summit - Boston

      • Michael Skok's keynote presentation at MassTLC Cloud Summit
      • Michael Skok's keynote presentation at MassTLC Cloud Summit
      • Michael Skok's keynote presentation at MassTLC Cloud Summit
      • Keynote Panel MassTLC Cloud Summit
      • Adapting Desktop Offerings to a Mobile World Panel

    • 2011 GigaOM Structure Panel - San Francisco

      • Michael Skok and Dries Buytaert in the Structure Ready Room
      • Michael Skok, Lew Moorman, Dries Buytaert, John Dillon & Marten Mickos on stage
      • Keynote Panel
      • Keynote Panel
      • Keynote Panel
      • Live Voting with Mozes
      • Panelists back stage with Jay Lyman and Mike Wolf

    • 2011 Cloud Leadership Dinner - San Francisco

      • Michael Skok with Structure Panelists
      • Survey Highlights Over Dinner
      • Lew Moorman of Rackspace, and Lew Tucker of Cisco
      • Michael Skok presenting at North Bridge Cloud Leaders Dinner in San Francisco
  • Cloud Computing Open Source

    • 2012 OSBC Keynote Panel

      • OSBC Kick-off with Matt Asay
      • Interview with Marten Mickos, CEO, Eucalyptus
      • Interview with Sheng Liang, CTO Cloud Platforms, Citrix
      • Michael Skok Lining up the OS Leaders starting with Jim Whitehurst, CEO, Red Hat
      • Tom Erickson, CEO Acquia & Ryan Garner, VP Direct to Consumer Warner Music
      • OSBC Keynote Panel, led by Michael Skok
      • Post Panel Interviews with Ryan Garner (Warner Music) & Tom Erickson (Acquia)

    • 2011 Open Source Leadership Dinner

      • Tim Yeaton, Black Duck and Kim Weins, Open Logic
      • Peter Guagenti, Tom Erickson, Acquia, Dries Buytaert-Acquia
      • Open Source Leadership Dinner
      • Norman Nie, Revolution Analytics and colleague
      • Matt Aslett, 451 Group and colleague
      • Jeff Erhardt, Revolution Analytics and colleague
      • Andrew Aitken, Black Duck and colleague
      • Tim Yeaton and Andrew Aitken, Black Duck
      • Michael Skok, North Bridge and colleague
      • Mark Radcliffe and Juan Mata
      • Dries Buytaert, Acquia and Erica Brescia, Bitrock
      • Basil Horangic, North Bridge and colleague

    • ComputerWorld's 2011 Open Source Business Conference

      • Jim Whitehurst, CEO Red Hat - "in the spotlight"
      • Discussing the Top 3 Barriers to the Future of Open Source
      • Michael Skok, NBVP and Dries Buytaert, Acquia & Drupal Project Lead
      • Standing Room Only at the Palace
      • The Panel Wrapping up key points - Yeaton, Augustin, Skok, Buytaert & Whitehurst
      • Tim Yeaton, CEO Black Duck, Larry Augustin CEO SugarCRM, Michael Skok, North Bri

    • Future of Open Source Cocktail Reception and Dinner

      Michael Skok hosted a reception and dinner with his OSBC 2010 panelists.

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