I received a few different press releases over the past two weeks. (For those of you who don't send me information on your company, don't complain when you don't get mentioned. I have a day job. I can't scour the web for news on your company....) It sounds like commercial open source is alive and well:JasperSoft reports that 30,000 BI developers have registered for its JasperForge community which currently hosts I received a few different press releases over the past two weeks. (For those of you who don’t send me information on your company, don’t complain when you don’t get mentioned. I have a day job. I can’t scour the web for news on your company….) It sounds like commercial open source is alive and well:JasperSoft reports that 30,000 BI developers have registered for its JasperForge community which currently hosts more than 130 BI projects; SugarCRM now has 233 applications, extensions and modules available on its SugarExchange market place. The online exchange, launched in October 2006, allows software developers to list and sell their products to customers. More than 7,000 transactions have been brokered so far.I like these announcements because they demonstrate more than downloads – they show that people actually care about the projects, and not simply as a way to pass five minutes of their time. Developers, developers, developers, developers! as one wise man sings. Open Source