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- Below: The top 25 companies from The Open Source 50 report, ranked 1 to 25
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| Company/Partner Site | Rank (2010) | Rank (2009) | Specialty | Channel Chief | Title |
| Red Hat Inc. | 1 | 1 | Linux, middleware, virtualization | Mark Enzweiler | VP, Global Channels |
| Digium Inc. | 2 | 4 | Asterisk open source IP PBX | Steve Harvey | Vice President of World Wide Sales |
| Novell Inc. | 3 | 3 | Linux | John Dragoon | CMO and Chief Channel Chief |
| SugarCRM Inc. | 4 | 11 | Customer relationship management | Jeff Campbell | VP of WW Sales |
| Zimbra (owned by Vmware | 5 | 6 | Email, collaboration software | Andy Pflaum | VP, Global Channels & Biz Development |
| Jaspersoft Corp. | 6 | 5 | Business intelligence | Jose Morales | VP Business Development |
| Alfresco Software Inc. | 7 | 12 | Enterprise content management | Bill Robinson | VP Sales Americas |
| Openbravo L.C. | 8 | 10 | ERP, POS | Andreu Bartoli | Global Channel Director |
| Open-Xchange | 9 | One to Watch | Email, collaboration software | Frank Hoberg | Founder and Executive VP Sales |
| Pentaho Corp. | 10 | 13 | Business intelligence | Richard Baldwin | Worldwide Channel Director |
| Zarafa | 11 | One to Watch | Collaboration software | StijnMeysen | Business Development Manager |
| Talend Inc. | 12 | Not Ranked | Data integration software | Madeleine Biskintaoui | Manager, NA Channel & Alliances |
| Compiere Inc. | 13 | 14 | Enterprise resource planning | Kyle Rosier | Director of Sales |
| KnowledgeTree Inc. | 14 | Not Ranked | Document management | Tim Spink | VP of Sales |
| Vyatta Inc. | 15 | 24 | Networking | Jenna Chow | Sales Director |
| EnterpriseDB | 16 | 19 | Databases | John Insko | Director |
| Likewise Software | 17 | One to Watch | Directory services integration | Tracy Lothringer | Director of Strategic Alliances |
| GroundWork Open Source (GWOS) | 18 | 16 | Network management and monitoring | Alan Cooke | VP, WW Field and Channel Operations |
| Opengear | 19 | 18 | Console servers | Todd Rychecky | VP Sales & Marketing, North America |
| Nuxeo | 20 | Not Ranked | Enterprise content management | Arnaud Lefevre | Executive VP of Sales |
| Kaltura Inc. | 21 | Not Ranked | Open source video | Mike Deskewies | VP Channel Sales & Development |
| xTuple | 22 | Not Ranked | Enterprise resource planning | Danielle Kerner | Director of Business Development |
| Fluendo S.A. | 23 | Not Ranked | Multimedia for GNU/Linux | Muriel Moscardini | CSO |
| DotNetNuke Corp. | 24 | Not Ranked | Web content management platform | Doug Howell | Director of Alliances |
| ClearCenter | 25 | One to Watch | Linux network gateway server | Michael Proper | CEO |
