Open Source Development Labs shrinks

Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on December 5, 2006

Open Source Development Labs have laid off 9 of 28 workers and CEO Stuart Cohen has resigned.

The OSDL is largely an industry joint venture, where IT companies pool resources to fund the development and mantainance of the linux kernel and other core open source components. The layoffs presumably reflect a drop in funding from those members, which makes sense as a number of industry players have decided to go their own way recently. Companies such as Oracle and Novell in particular.

cheers, stuart

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		Open Source Development Labs shrinks Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on December 5, 2006 Open Source Development Labs have laid off 9 of 28 workers and CEO Stuart Cohen has resigned. The OSDL is largely an industry joint venture, where IT companies pool resources to fund the development and mantainance of the linux kernel and other core open source components. The layoffs presumably reflect a drop in funding from those members, which makes sense as a number of industry players have decided to go their own way recently. Companies such as Oracle and Novell in particular. cheers, stuart downsizing \| layoffs \| Linux \| Linux Kernel \| novell \| open_source \| Oracle \| stuart cohen Stuart's blog Login or register to post comments 3048 reads
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