He serves on the boards of Evernote, NexTag, Rhythm NewMedia, Jaspersoft, MuleSoft, Adara Media and Voltage Security.

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Open-source firms are flourishing in databases (Ingres, for instance), business intelligence (JasperSoft), customer-relationship management and other business applications (SugarCRM, Alfresco).

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But Jaspersoft is growing several times the rate of the industry.

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Another Jaspersoft customer is the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

FORBES: From Bucharest and Padua To San Francisco: Jaspersoft's Growing 50%

Jaspersoft has plenty of users and is still growing fast.

FORBES: From Bucharest and Padua To San Francisco: Jaspersoft's Growing 50%

In the face of competition from Oracle (ORCL), Microsoft (MSFT) and IBM (IBM), Jaspersoft can prevail with small companies that want to pay less money for 80% of the BI functionality that the larger BI suites provide.

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Jaspersoft is going after a big market.

FORBES: From Bucharest and Padua To San Francisco: Jaspersoft's Growing 50%

Jaspersoft sprang from unique roots.

FORBES: From Bucharest and Padua To San Francisco: Jaspersoft's Growing 50%