The Open Source 50: 25 Up and Comers (2010 Edition)

  • Below: 25 companies worth watching in the open source IT channel.
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Company/Partner Site Rank (2010) Rank (2009) Specialty Channel Chief Title
Acquia One to Watch One to Watch Drupal content management Bryan House Sr. Director, Marketing
Actuate One to Watch One to Watch Business intelligence Pete Cittadini CEO
Astaro Corp. One to Watch Not Ranked Internet security David Rogers Vice President, Americas
Canonical One to Watch One to Watch Linux Chris Kenyon VP, OEM Services
Cleversafe One to Watch 15 Security Jose Figueroa Senior VP, Sales
Continuent Inc. One to Watch One to Watch Database replication Eero Teerikorpi CEO
eBox Technologies Inc. One to Watch Not Ranked Linux small business server Javi Vázquez COO
eRacks Open Source Systems One to Watch One to Watch Linuix servers Max Haskvitz General Manager
Eucalyptus Systems One to Watch Not Ranked Cloud computing Matt Reid VP, Sales and Marketing
Ingres Corp. One to Watch 8 Databases Fred Gallagher VP, Business Development
Intalio Inc. One to Watch Not Ranked Enterprise cloud Arnaud Blandin VP, Alliances
IPBrick International One to Watch 7 Unified communications Raul Oliveira CEO
JumpBox, Inc. One to Watch One to Watch Cloud computing Kimbro Staken CEO
Magnolia International Ltd. One to Watch Not Ranked Content management Andrew King Head of Business Development
Mandriva S.A. One to Watch One to Watch Linux Gaurav Parakh VP, Channel Business Unit
Mindtouch Inc. One to Watch One to Watch Collaboration platform Mark Fidelman VP of Sales
MuleSoft One to Watch Not Ranked Middleware Chris Purpura VP, Corporate & Biz Development
MySQL (Owned by Oracle) One to Watch 2 Databases Judson Althoff Channel Chief, Oracle
rSmart One to Watch One to Watch Enterprise software for universities Tom Chapman CFO/VP of Business Development
SpringSource (a division of VMware) One to Watch Not Ranked Software development Mitch Ferguson Senior Director, Alliances
StarPound Technologies Inc. One to Watch One to Watch Call center software Robert Shoe VP, Sales & Business Development
Untangle One to Watch 9 Security Bob Walters President & CEO
Xandros Corp. One to Watch One to Watch Linux Andreas Typaldos CEO
Zenoss Inc. One to Watch Not Ranked IT management Brian Riley VP, Global Alliances
Zmanda Inc. One to Watch One to Watch Backup and disaster recovery Ron Leonard Director of Channel Sales
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