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September 15, 2008 10:07 AM PDT

What's up at booming SpringSource?

by Matt Asay
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Last week SpringSource announced that it grew 250 percent year-over-year in quarterly bookings while doubling sales each of the last three years. SpringSource currently boasts 450 customers and is, in my mind, one of the bright lights within the commercial open-source ecosystem.

For this reason I'm a bit baffled by Neelan Choksi's departure from SpringSource. Choksi, the company's former COO, left the company in July as his LinkedIn shows. While Neelan remains a board member at SpringSource, I'm troubled that he has left. Attempts to reach Neelan by phone have not proved successful.

It's very possible that Choksi left for greener pastures, but with how green the SpringSource pasture appears to be, I'm not convinced. Can anyone provide more data?

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About The Open Road

Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to the Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is general manager of the Americas division and vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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