CIO Insight posted today an interesting article on Open Source and success stories from companies who have decided to take the plunge and the payback they are getting from the decision. The article was writtern by Darel Dunn.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - July 24, 2007 - Untangle, the pioneer in open source network gateway platforms, today announced the "Untangle AV Fight Club." It will take place August 8 at the LinuxWorld Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Testing labs have not publicized test results of open source projects like ClamAV. This may not be surprising given that these labs are funded by proprietary vendors. With the testing system as is, open source solutions aren’t even in the game. This isn’t right.

LONDON, July 23, 2007 – Alfresco Software, Inc., the leader in open source enterprise content management, today announced the immediate availability of its first-ever global survey of trends in the use of open source software in the enterprise.

TARRYTOWN, NY, July 23, 2007 — Open Xchange Inc., the
leading provider of open source collaborative software, was named Best
Linux Groupware Server in the first annual Enterprise Open Source
Readers Choice Awards. The winners were revealed by SYS-CON, the
publishing company for Enterprise Open Source Magazine, at the second
annual Enterprise Open Source Conference in New York.

CUPERTINO, Calif. (July 25, 2007) - SugarCRM Inc., the world’s
leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship
management (CRM) software, today announced the upcoming release of
Sugar Community Edition 5.0 will be licensed under the new Version 3 of
the GNU General Public License (GPL). The GPL is the most widely used
free and open source (FOSS) license in the market.

TARRYTOWN, NY, July 16, 2007 – Open-Xchange Inc.,
today announced  full-featured collaboration software designed to make
it easy for small- and medium-sized businesses to take advantage of the
cost benefits of open source without requiring prior Linux know-how. 
The product, Open-Xchange Express Edition, provides organizations with
an alternative to expensive proprietary collaboration software.

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system--expressed disappointment with the new GPL.

Linus says "In a very real sense, the GPLv3 asks people to do things that I personally would refuse to do."

It remains to be seen how this will affect the development of the licensing terms of Linux and how this will affect the community of developers and projects around it. Several weeks ago, the Samba team headed by Jeremy Allison, already voiced their support for the GPL v3 License.

InfoWorld's Harper Mann reached out to a number of CEOs who head up open
source companies (or at least utilize a lot of open source in their
technology) as well as some leading open source associations to get

What is the true value of open source? by ZDNet's
Dana Blankenhorn -- The sharing of code and free distribution aren't
just a business story, or a political one, or a social one. The metrics
we use to measure it must probe more deeply, and more widely, to get
the full picture.

An announcement was made today by Jeremy Allison, one of the heads of the Samba project at the Samba.org mailing lists of the group's decision to support the recently released Version 3 of the GPL.

From his email: