Commercial OpenSource: SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson (Part 5)

SM: If you are doing an OpenSource application server I have no problem gauging the size of that market. RJ: Obviously there was already one significant player in that space, JBoss. JBoss was really largely a commodity play similar to MySQL. We have previously brought genuine, new ideas to market, and that is what we

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Commercial OpenSource: SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson (Part 4)

SM: What was it like to pluck yourself from the UK and land in Silicon Valley? Did you know people and have contacts? How did you navigate Silicon Valley? RD: It didn’t bother me, but it was tough on my family. I know most entrepreneurs would not consider it a family-friendly activity because it is

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Commercial OpenSource: SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson (Part 3)

SM: When you put your framework out there in the OpenSource domain you did it as an individual, correct? What went through your mind as you saw the adoption? RJ: I have always had a somewhat hardnosed attitude about it. When I was writing the book, I was doing it to help build my personal

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