The wrong way is to open a Linux company that acts as a wall between the developer and the user.
"Larry Augustin" is CEO of SugarCRM and is a former venture capitalist and the co-founder and former chairman of VA Software, now known as Geeknet. Larry holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He founded VA Research, the predecessor to that company, in 1993 while a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at Stanford University.
While at VA, he was one of the driving forces behind the creation of SourceForge, a popular collaborative revision control/software development management system.
He currently serves on the board of several companies, including DotNetNuke Corporation/DotNetNuke, Fonality, the Free Standards Group, JBoss, Linux International, MedSphere, the OSDL, Pentaho, SugarCRM, Hyperic, Compiere, Zend Technologies and Appcelerator Titanium/Appcelerator. Larry Augustin is also featured in the 2001 documentary film Revolution OS.
More Larry Augustin on Wikipedia.[Microsoft's omnipresence was apparent at the show in statements from executives of open source companies.] Microsoft is the largest software company in the world. They are our competition, ... The day when they're not the competition is when we'll stop talking about them.
While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimistic about our prospects for growth in the future. We remain committed to profitability, excluding non-cash charges, no later than the end of calendar 2001 and we anticipate revenue for fiscal 2001 to be approximately 2.25 times fiscal 2000 revenue.
If you're using the Internet today, you're using open source software; you're using Linux.
Haven't you ever been using an operating system and said, 'Well, that's stupid, why do the menus look like that?'
In 1998, Linux had 16 percent of the server operating system market, and in 1999, it already had 25 percent.
With development infrastructure, sometimes we would find (companies) spending more time working on the (Linux) infrastructure for the project than working on the project itself.
The dot.com businesses started out with all these different business models. It wasn't clear that anyone really knew how they were going to make money, and we've had that fallout and transition, ... At the same time, a lot of established businesses picked up on the Web.
This acquisition effectively creates a Yahoo! for Linux and open source developers.
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