Many a successful startup owes its creation to a wild gamble that paid off. Think about Andy Bechtolsheim’s $100,000 bet on Google, a promising search company that didn’t even have a bank account yet.

Commercial software giants such as Oracle and IBM are moving deeper into and changing the face of the open source community by snapping up start-ups. Though arguably in its early stages, the trend is ...

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