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"Open source is definitely a hot topic with the venture capital community, there's no question about that" John Rymer, vice-president of research at Forrester Research, told LinuxInsider.
Open source is becoming more attractive as an investment as venture capitalists come to understand and think of such opportunities as more mainstream, said Itsy Ahmed, a vice president at Oak Investment Partners.
Rymer added that "the move toward open source is virtually irreversible ... and heating up," and he predicts that 2005 will see a number of new start-ups based on open source. "I talked to someone recently who was entertaining three different offers to be a CEO of open-source companies," Rymer said.
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