Trends in corporate open source engagement: 
In 1998, I was part of SGI when we started moving to open source and open standards, after having been a long-time proprietary company. Since then, other companies also have moved rapidly to working with open source, and the use and adoption of open source technologies has skyrocketed over the past few years. Today company involvement in open source technologies is fairly mature and can be seen in the following trends:
read more: Opensource.com NithyaRuff
Supporting Open Source.
Have you tried: Sailing in Africa ?