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100 Open Source Companies Ranked by Momentum Index
Sector: open source  (100 companies ranked)
Released: June 12, 2012
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We continue to be impressed with the Open Source category. Its one of the deepest we cover in terms of quality and growth. We think most of the companies in the top 20 have significant long term potential. In terms of new companies, we are impressed where mobile meets open source.
Highlights
Our Favorite: Cloudera
Most Acceleration: Couchbase
Companies to Watch: 10gen, Basho,
MuleSoft, Hortonworks

Momentum Index Top 10

Here are our current top 10 open source companies with our take on each.

Rank Company Momentum Index Total Reported Fundraising Our Take Cheer for
a Company
1 93.8 +6.9 $76M FAVORITE
Cloudera dominates mindshare around Hadoop, which is the “big” in big data. Whether they develop product revenue or service revenue will be the difference between being the next Splunk or the next Appirio. Either way, it’s a big win. 		Cheer about Cloudera on Twitter
2 90.6 +17.0 $50.2M RECENT FINANCING
Appcelerator combines mobile and open source to support 1.3M developers and 30,000 applications. 		Cheer about Appcelerator on Twitter
3 90.1 +0.1 $38.5M With over two million downloads since inception, Drupal is used by web developers worldwide to build sophisticated community websites. Cheer about Acquia on Twitter
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  • http://twitter.com/littleidea Andrew Clay Shafer

    No Puppet Labs or Opscode?

    What data are you analyzing for this?

    Makes the whole index suspect imho.

    • Anonymous

      One of the biggest challenges is categorization of companies to correctly get them into the right lists. We scan top level textual descriptions for keywords as one technique to identify companies. Unfortunately we missed Opscode and Puppet Labs in this run and did not identify anything related to open source in our process. I will tag them as open source and be sure they make the next run.

      In the meantime both companies were rated and would have appeared near 30 on this list if we had identified them.

      Puppet Labs: 44.8

      Opscode: 47.5

      Thanks for the heads up.

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  • http://twitter.com/sramji Sam Ramji

    No mention of DataStax (Cassandra), dotCloud, or AppFog.  I’d recommend you include them.

    • http://twitter.com/momentumindex Momentum Index

      All three have been tagged into the open source category.   Their current index is below.   

      DataStax:   48.8
      AppFog:  36.0
      dotCloud: 31.8

      Thanks for the heads up.

  • http://twitter.com/h_ingo Henrik Ingo

    Eh… Why would you include Participatory Culture Foundation (a non-profit) but not Mozilla Foundation? With their 1bn USD deal, Mozilla would easily top this list.

    • Anonymous

      Well that was just a plain mistake on our part. Non-profits should not be included in the lists. We removed Participatory Culture Foundation from this list and from our active DB of companies. Thanks for helping us improve this data.

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