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OpenSource
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
Today’s Two Big Acquisitions
Sun is buying open source database maker MySQL for $1 Billion. More than 100 million copies of MySQL’s database software have been downloaded and 50,000 copies are downloaded daily. MySQL had raised $39 million from Benchmark, Index, IVP, Intel, and SAP, and was in IPO discussions. It’s good to see that MySQL has found a
Open Source of Book Publishing?
I want to point my readers to Peter Redford’s experiment in creating a Publishing Empire by using the web as a democratic medium akin to Open Source … Browse Books, Inc. is a concept that Peter is experimenting with. A hypothetical press release could read … “Merged-media book publisher, BROWSE, announced today that it is
