Bruno Lowagie wrote:

At the bottom you can read that JasperReports pulled
in $8 million last summer from investors.

Correction: it's about JasperSoft, the company behind
JasperReports. You see: it sometimes confuses even me
from time to time ;-)

One more thing about creating a company behind
an OS product.
Recently I entered a Belgian competition called
BizIdee: http://www.bizidee.be/ Basically you
can 'win your own company'. Just for fun I
participated to the two first stages of the
competition with a proposal for 'iText Document
Services', a series of services that could be
offered by a company.
Based on the reports made by the jury (that were
negative), I fear that under the pretext of looking
for 'innovative products' they are just looking
for 'traditional/old economy' companies, so I
won't be participating to the third stage.
I like the OS model and I believe in it, but I fear
it's getting a hype among investors in the US.
Europe has a much more prudent approach. I think
that's a good thing.
br,
Bruno


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