Hippo

January 8, 2008

Hippo, the Dutch vendor of open source enterprise content management and portal software, has had an excellent year in 2007. This year was successful partly because more and more company's see the benefits of the usage of open standards and open source software. Also the Dutch government announced in September 2007 that government institutions must choose for open source software when possible.

Revenue
This year Hippo was the only open source vendor in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50, the fifty fastest growing technology company's in the Netherlands, with a total revenue of 517 per cent over five year (2002-2006). In 2007 Hippo realized the largest growth in its own history.

New partners and clients
Also Hippo has extended its client list considerably. The company made agreements for support contract for its open source enterprise content management and portal software with ABN AMRO, ANWB, SDU, ICTU, Incisive Media and the PVDA. Furthermore new partnerships were established with Lost Boys, IPROFS, Be Value, TDC lighthouse and HintTech.

Open Source Recognition
In 2007 Hippo received appreciation for the helped they gave with organizing and speaking at the ApacheCon Europe, the ApacheCon USA, the Apache Wicket meeting and the Cocoon GetTogether.

Arjé Cahn and Ate Douma where chosen as member of Apache Software Foundation. Hippo also played an active role with the specification of open standards (JSR 283, 286 & 301).

Moreover Hippo reached the Emerce 100 and the top ten in 'website management'. This list was based on research of TNS/NIPO.

Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer, CEO at Hippo: “This was a very successful year for Hippo. The market begins to see the advantages of open source software. We have made agreements with interesting company's and also the number of partners grew considerably. Furthermore interesting developments are taking place at international level. So Hippo looks forward to the upcoming year with a lot of enthusiasm.