TechIQ, which focuses on the VAR IT channel business, has identified the top 10 open source companies they expect to succeed in 2008. It's a good article and although it includes some obvious choices, it also includes a few well-thought out surprises. So it's not your typical end-of-year round up. This one has some creative thinking behind it. I think there's a lot of potential for VARs to get behind the open so TechIQ, which focuses on the VAR IT channel business, has identified the top 10 open source companies they expect to succeed in 2008. It’s a good article and although it includes some obvious choices, it also includes a few well-thought out surprises. So it’s not your typical end-of-year round up. This one has some creative thinking behind it. I think there’s a lot of potential for VARs to get behind the open source movement and help customers with implementations as well as integration of open source offerings. (Disclaimer: I admit that I blushed to see MySQL in the list. But I would have posted this article regardless.) Open Source