Open Source Business

Mindbridge didn’t start out as an open source company — far from it. “We had a predominantly Microsoft-oriented shop,” says David Christian, Mindbridge CTO. But the company, which at the time offered an “intranet in a box” application, began hosting the software for its clients. “That required us to get a good handle on Linux, because Linux was the only inexpensive, cost-efficient way of handling that in a scaled environment,” Christian says. “And I didn’t want to add Microsoft to our customers’ overhead.” The more Christian worked with Linux, the more he liked it. And, as they say, the rest is history. (more…)

Professional Mortgage Partners in Downers Grove, Illinois, runs a technology consulting side business helping realtors set up office portals and inexpensively access the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) database through the use of open source software. Read more at Newsforge.com.