Comments on: Do I look ugly in this open-source license?

Open source may be faring well in a bad economy, but that doesn't mean you will, as Socialtext's poor first quarter suggests.

[Sortova]

At OpenNMS, we too had a bad first quarter. While our support revenues were steady, our bread and butter comes from development projects, and while we had a number of them in the pipeline, they were all on hold. They tend to be fairly large and thus it seemed like everyone was holding their breath.

Second quarter is a different story. By far our best quarter ever. A number of development projects closed (and all that code goes back into the main OpenNMS project) and our support customers jumped in number. We're getting ready for a new stable release and are looking to hire if we can find the right people.

Life is good, and I'm hoping this trend continues for the rest of the year.

[Matt Asay]

Thanks for the candor. It would be great to get data from other companies, anonymous or otherwise, to get a real feel for how open source is doing.

[philipdc]

What is the limit to these social networks. Once you have checked your email, run maintenance on your Joomla site, read your Google Alerts, Updated your Tweets answered you facebook requests, its almost time for lunch.

Is there room fro more connections. The good news is my phone has stopped ringing. Even Skyope seems difficutl to engage on.