€75,000 awarded to top three open source businesses
Ian Williams, vnunet.com 25 Jan 2008
The winners were announced at the "Open Source Meets Business" Conference in Nuremberg where the foundation is headquartered.
The awards were created to recognise those companies, institutions and individuals who have been shining examples in creating viable business models around open source development.
First place, earning prize money to the tune of €50,000, went to Rapid-I, an open source data mining specialist from Dortmund.
Second prize, carrying €15,000, was taken by Open Bravo, an open source ERP company from Pamplona in Spain.
The third place and €10,000 were presented to brox IT-Solutions from Hanover, a specialist in data optimisation and the personalised tracking of information.
A special award in the shape of a quad-core processor PC was presented to the Freiburg-based Core Systems.
The decisions were made by a panel of 17 members, and the votes were unanimous. All award winners were commended as outstanding, innovative examples for the European open source sector.
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