At the Open Source Conference, six hot open source startups and projects gets noticed. Many of them are in under the software categories which are deemed most vulnerable to open source disruption, including cooperation and conferencing, social publishing, sales automation, application deployment and developer tools. Matt Asay , Alfresco CMS business development chief and OSBC founder, said that open source keeps moving higher up the stack and into niche areas.
At the conference, executives from SugarCRM, Zenoss and the Olliance group has been asked to weigh in on what they thought were the most promising and popular open source commercial offerings and open source projects.