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February 07, 2006
The sad state of European technology
While the previous couple of posts brings me at least a little hope that there is still some fire left in European technology - when it comes to things like Web 2.0 and Open Source - I feel distinctly despondent when comparing the scene here with what is happening in the US.
Paul Fisher has some statistics on European Web 2.0 funding - which runs at around 10% of that of the US. I'd be interested in seeing some similar survey figures for Open Source startups - but I'm betting they would be about the same or even (much) lower.
Posted by Matthew at February 7, 2006 02:00 PM
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Don't forget how much of open source originally came out of Europe... http, Linux, Python, KDE off the top of my head. The business environment is definitely suboptimal (especially here in Italy), but there *are* a lot of really smart people. In terms of people to talk tech with, I never felt bad about the move from San Francisco to Padova, Italy.
These stats are interesting, BTW:
http://www.doingbusiness.org/EconomyRankings/
Posted by: David N. Welton at February 7, 2006 02:26 PM