Joe Panettieri, Former Editorial Director

January 12, 2009

1 Min Read
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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About the Author(s)

Joe Panettieri

Former Editorial Director, Nine Lives Media, a division of Penton Media

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