Open Source

Friday, August 09, 2002

A $3,000,000 in Revenue Open Source Company (for 2001) Holy Bat Crap!  Who Knew? ... The company counted about $3 million in revenue in 2001 and expects to increase that to $9 million this year, Pike said. Next year, it is aiming to reach $20 million. To meet these goals, ActiveState will hire new staff to expand its work force to 60 or 64 by the end of this year and to 120 by next year. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-949122.html Now ActiveState does have a proprietary side to it with Komodo, etc, but still this company is a real part of the Open Source community and even contributes back.  And, in case you missed my earlier article, Komodo, their new IDE based on the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine, looked fantastic when I got a demo at OSCON.  Way to Go Guys!!!! 4:34:08 PM