Open source history, present day, and licensing
This article is part of my talk, Open-Source Business Models. You can see the full transcript and the video of my talk on Heavybit.com. My name is Marten Mickos and I’m the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems. As Tom mentioned, I was the CEO of MySQL for eight years. I was de facto the only CEO […]
Nimbula Joins the OpenStack Community
A piece of news that I’ve been aware of for a month or two now is today public knowledge – Nimbula (more on them here), the cloud infrastructure company famously founded by the team that developed Amazon’s prescient EC2 offering, is signing up to join the OpenStack community. Nimbula is
OpenStack Community By The Numbers
There are lot of questions about whether OpenStack Community can be truly vendor neutral. The OpenStack Foundation Board has three tiers (see my previous post questioning the neutrality of such a structure); Platinum Members, Gold Members and Individual Members. Platinum and Gold members have 2/3 of the votes in the board with Platinum Members enjoying […]
Life On The Open Waves
For those of you who are either generally interested or perhaps following from afar, it has certainly been difficult to miss the numerous goings-on within the OpenStack community over this last couple of weeks. In what could yet turn out to be the biggest soap opera to appear out of Texas since “Dallas”, there is certainly no shortage of drama – the […]
Eucalyptus Systems Changes CEO – What’s Next?
Image via Wikipedia On Friday, Eucalyptus Systems, the open source software powering the private clouds in the enterprises, announced that the former CEO of MySQL AB, Mårten Mickos, has taken over as CEO of Eucalyptus Systems replacing Woody Rollins who will now be their CFO. This has taken the entire industry by surprise. I am […]
