Linux World Names 2008’s Top Leaders in Open Source Business
Im in good company.
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). In 2007, they enlisted open source advocate William Hurley who prefers to go by whurley, to help lead their foray into Open Source software. As the former CTO of open source management company Qlusters and co-founder of the Open Management Consortium, he has the expertise. What remains to be seen is the impact he can have on one of the world’s largest software companies to embrace open source management in an industry that is becoming overrun with open source upstarts. Earlier this year BMC released a few projects under an open source license but it’s not clear there is any value to anyone but a BMC customer there. In the near term the opportunity is for BMC to distance itself as the open source leader among the Big Four of systems management (collectively HP, IBM, CA and BMC). In the long term the opportunity is to collaborate with open source vendors.
This is just a quick blog post to say thanks to everyone in the community who has supported me as I’ve worked to make BMC one of the top names in open source. I especially want to thank everyone who let me know that I was named one of 2008’s Top Leaders in Open Source Business by LinuxWorld. It’s an honor to be mentioned along side Marten Mickos (CEO, MySQL AB), Andy Astor (CEO, EnterpriseDB), John Roberts (CEO, SugarCRM), Larry Augustin (Private Investor), Jonathan Schwartz (CEO, Sun Microsystems), Matt Asay (VP of Business Development, Alfresco), James Governor, Stephen O’Grady, Michael Coté (Redmonk), and Raven Zachary (Research Director, The 451 Group).
