Open Source and Open Innovation with whurley

Several people asked me to post something about it but as most of you know I haven’t been doing to well with the whole ‘blogging’ thing lately. So, here’s my mediocre attempt to share. If you want to read the entire story, it’s available online but here’s the basic overview: At 36 years old, William Hurley [...]

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Today I received a ton of email and IM messages related to LinuxWorld naming me as one of 2008’s Top Leaders in Open Source Business. BMC is one of the world’s largest software companies with a market cap over $6 billion and revenues in excess of $1.58 billion (for previous four fiscal quarters ending March 2007). [...]

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For the last few days Matt Asay has been discussing Oracle, Novell, and SAIC and how open source affects their strategy and operational plans. Today he’s discussing BMC Software and featuring a guest post from yours truly. Today I wanted to talk with a company that has not traditionally been known for its open source work. [...]

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Apparently I’m making a 27 year old publicly traded proprietary software company cool. I am sitting here on a Saturday working on a book rather than going for a walk with my wife and son on this sun-kissed afternoon when i unwisely decide to just take a tiny peek at Twitter. Giovanni is talking about trying [...]

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Dana Blankenhorn has a post on ZDNet entitled “Open source battles the mooch-o-meter“. In the post he discusses a Gartner report which describes a growing chorus of grumbles concerning the “big four” of IT management — HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, CA Unicenter and BMC Patrol. All of which brings me back to William Hurley (right), late

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