Percentage of Revenue From Partners
How committed are open source companies to their channel partners? True partner-centric companies drive a higher and higher percent of their revenues through partners. Here’s a look at who’s driving the largest slice of their revenues through the channel.
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Rank Company And Partner Web Site Link 2008 Revenue From Partners 2007 Revenue From Partners
1 Untangle Inc. 100% 100%
1 Cleversafe Inc. 100% NA
3 IPBrick International 98% 95%
4 Digium Inc. 80% 80%
4 Openbravo S.L. 80% 50%
4 Compiere Inc. 80% 80%
7 Opengear 75% 42%
8 Sun Microsystems Inc. 68% 68%
9 Red Hat Inc. 60% 50%
9 Novell Inc. 60% 55%
9 Jaspersoft Corp. 60% 50%
9 Alfresco Software Inc. 60% 15%
9 Continuent Inc. 60% 50%
14 Zimbra, a Yahoo! Company 52% 34%
15 xTuple Inc. 50% 40%
15 Openmoko, Inc. 50% 0%
17 Ingres Corp. 38% 28%
18 Pentaho Inc. 30% 30%
20 Fonality 30% 15%
21 Hyperic 30% 20%
22 MuleSource Inc. 27% 27%
23 Vyatta Inc. 25% 5%
24 EnterpriseDB Corp. 20% 10%
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Worth Noting
GroundWork Open Source declined to publicly disclose information, but The VAR Guy tracked it down
Cleversafe products not available in 2007
Novell data estimated
Ingres data estimated
Vyatta data estimated
Sun data estimated
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