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Android gains interest
By Rafael Ruffolo place with 191 releases. Black attractive phone. It was by no
n DESPITE lAunChInG On Duck compiled the data after means the sparkling product
the T-Mobile G1 with little scouring through more than that the iPhone was when it
mainstream fanfare, Google 185,000 open source projects launched.”
Inc.’s Android OS appears to across 4,000 Internet sites. Peter Vescuso, executive
have gained strong interest in “From the standpoint of vice-president of marketing and
the open source development relative size, I would have business development at Black
community, according to a actually expected the iPhone’s Duck Software, said that he
new report by Black Duck lead to have been even larger,” encountered a lot of buzz sur-Software Inc. said Rob Enderle, principal rounding the Android platform
The Waltham, Mass.- analyst at San Jose, Calif.- while attending this month’s
based open source software based The Enderle Group. GMSA Mobile World Congress
consultancy found that Apple “People typically want to build show in Barcelona.
Inc.’s iPhone led the industry for something that is in-mar- “Android was very, very hot
with 266 open source project ket and with Android we only at the show, with everybody
releases during 2008, while have the G1, which is kind of talking about it,” Vescuso said.
Android followed in second a beta release and not a very Continued on page 10
