In email interviews with Chander Kant, CEO and cofounder of Zmanda, and Paddy Sreenivasan, VP of Engineering and cofounder of Zmanda, Alolita Sharma discussed all things ZRM, open-source backup and growing an Open Source community.
Silicon Valley is chock-full of Web 2.0 startups today. And these startups are using open source big-time.
Silicon Valley has produced many hits — both in hardware and software and now in the next generation Web. The Valley's culture of networking and innovating is setting the stage for the next wave of success.
Many venture capitalists (VCs) are starting to get excited because they see that OSS can form the basis for a profitable ROI.
“Price-slashing” by monopolistic proprietary software companies masks the high costs customers still unwittingly pay. And when this rip-off is endorsed by governments and industry leaders, the digital divide can only widen.
Linux For You’s editor, together with technologists Robert Adkins and Alolita Sharma, met Michael Tiemann, vice president, open source affairs, Red Hat, on his first visit to India in October 2004. Tiemann, with a long string of successes – from being the 23 year old developer of the GNU C++ compiler, to co-founder of a very successful software company Cygnus Solutions, is today part of Red Hat’s founding team and eager to push the benefits of open source to the global frontier. In this wide-ranging interview, Tiemann shares his vision, enthusiasm and entrepreneurial spirit.
Innovation leading to better and cheaper software has become the mantra to succeed in the new software marketplace.
Google, the world's smartest search engine company, is on the eve of going public and Wall Street is going googlemanic. Google could not have done it without top technology, user loyalty, good profits and infrastructure powered by Open Source.
As co-organizer of LinuxAsia in New Delhi, things at Technetra could not be more hectic but its founders still managed to present on topics they are deeply interested in.
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