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OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 8)
SM: Let’s focus a bit on the OpenSource universe itself. How do you see the movement changing and what do you see around you that is significant? Take WordPress for example; they just raised a ton of money. I run my website on WordPress and I don’t pay a dime. BB: What is interesting is
OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 7)
SM: Do you have all of the project management capabilities as well? BB: We are definitely a lot more than just a bug database. We also show you the features customers are asking for. We can let your customers vote on potential features. When your customer base starts ranking their priorities you gain incredible visibility.
OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 6)
SM: Let’s talk some more about commercial accounts. In a way Subversion is like your Trojan Horse to get into a company! BB: That’s funny! I prefer to refer to it as the thin edge of the wedge! At least that is not as bad as the term viral. I hate it when I hear
OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 5)
SM: CollabNet is a commercial company which secures traditional business contracts, right? Companies pay CollabNet versus CollabNet being an OpenSource provider? How does that all work? BB: At one level we are software as a service. We charge for access on a per-user, per-month basis. Over the past few years we have developed our processes
OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 4)
SM: In your eyes what makes OpenSource work so well? BB: That is a question I first started to answer almost ten years ago. Back in 1999 I brainstormed quite a bit with Tim O’Reilly about what really made OpenSource work. At the time there were obviously companies like Red Hat emerging as support organizations,
OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 3)
SM: Was Apache a non-profit from 1995 to 1998? BB: Apache certainly grew and grew fast. In 1998, in part because of the interest and involvement from major players like IBM, Sun, and Oracle, we realized that we needed to form and actual entity. Otherwise someone could have found a patent issue and come and
OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 2)
SM: How did you get involved with Apache? Was it through Organic? BB: Organic was my day job and I stayed there until 1998. Apache was a side effort that ran in parallel to Organic. Web technologies were brand new at the time and companies were just starting to emerge with commercial web software. Most
OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 1)
When I think OpenSource, I think about a certain well-known figure from my grad student days at MIT, who never showered, slept in his office, and believed that software should be free. Today, I bring you a different sort of OpenSource pioneer: one with a business sense! Brian Behlendorf, as you will get to know