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Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund Injects €688K into Samba

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sep 16, 2024,

updated Sep 25, 2024

Quoting: Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund Injects €688K into Samba —

SerNet GmbH, a German company specializing in providing services and support for open-source software with a particular focus on Samba, has secured substantial funding of €688,800 from the German Sovereign Tech Fund (STF), Open Source’s great friend and supporter to advance the Samba project.

After providing €1 million to the GNOME Project at the end of last year, investing €203K in GStreamer and €157K in FFmpeg earlier this year, and recently €686K to FreeBSD, the company is now making another impressive donation to the open-source ecosystem, specifically, the Samba Project.

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Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund Spends More Than $700K to Fund Samba Security Upgrades

Samba -- once considered essential for desktop GNU/Linux users and which is still an essential part of enterprise operations -- is getting a big security makeover.

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Samba Receives EUR 688,800 From Sovereign Tech Fund

The Samba project, an open-source software crucial for interoperability between Windows, Linux, and Unix systems, has received significant funding from the German Sovereign Tech Fund (STF). SerNet, a company involved in the Samba community, secured the funding of €688,800, to support Samba's continued development. The funding will primarily focus on enhancing Samba's security, scalability, and functionality over the next 18 months.