Tuesday January 16, 2007
It's official - Sun is the #1 contributor to Open Source - by a long way
Just seen this link posted internally: the rather windily-named Study on the Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU. To cut to the chase, Sun is acknowledged as being the number one contributor to Open Source, outstripping the second contributor (IBM) by nearly 3½ times. I've reproduced the relevant table below:
Table 5: Cost estimate for FLOSS code contributed by firms
| Total contribution from firms | |||
| Number of firms | 986 | ||
| Source lines of code | 31.2 million | ||
| Estimated effort | 16444 person years | ||
| Estimated cost | 1.2 billion Euro | ||
| Top contributors | |||
| Rank | Name | Person-months | Cost (mil euro) |
| 1 | sun microsystems inc. | 51372 | 312 |
| 2 | ibm corp. | 14865 | 90 |
| 3 | red hat corp. | 9748 | 59 |
| 4 | silicon graphics corp. | 7736 | 47 |
| 5 | sap ag | 7493 | 46 |
| 6 | mysql ab | 5747 | 35 |
| 7 | netscape communications corp. | 5249 | 32 |
| 8 | ximian inc. | 4985 | 30 |
| 9 | realnetworks inc. | 4412 | 27 |
| 10 | at&t | 4286 | 26 |
And that's before the recent OpenJDK announcement!
Posted by alanbur ( Jan 16 2007, 08:31:23 PM GMT ) Permalink Comments [2]
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