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David Liu, founder and CEO behind gOS--the Linux operating system you remember from the $200 Wal-Mart machines--weighs in on the gOS 3 beta and netbooks.....

Marketcetera adds real-time equity data to its open source trading platform.....

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Open Source Venture Funding in Q2: Up Again

There is more good news for open source on the venture capital front. Following record inflows for venture capital into open source for the first quarter, The 451 Group is reporting that VC funding levels rose again in the second quarter as compared to last year. Funding rose just under 14 percent to $115 million, compared to $101.5 million in 2007. Here's the really striking stat: Total funding for the first half of the year to date stands at $321.3 million, up 62 percent over the first half of 2007, just shy of the $328.5 million raised in the whole of last year.


Open Source Trading Software Firm Marketcetera Raises $4 Million

Big hedge funds, individual traders and others are driving up the amount of money invested in high-frequency quantitative trading strategies. Does that represent an opportunity for open source trading platforms?

Some investors might cringe at the idea of trusting a lot of money--and trade executions--to open source software, but opportunities are arising. Marketcetera, a leading open source platform provider recently released a new version of its trading software, and will announce tomorrow that it has closed $4 million in Series A funding led by Shasta Ventures and Jack Selby of Clarium Capital--a hedge fund.