BW: Collab.Net Recruits Leading Open Source Talent to Direct Engineering and Strategy Initiatives

"Key Players Extend Collaborative Software Development Capabilities." "Collab.Net... today announced the appointment of James Barry as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Frank Hecker as Systems Engineering Manager and Jason Robbins as Senior Software Engineer. "We are proud to attract the caliber of talent found in James, Frank and Jason," said Brian Behlendorf, Founder and CTO..."

"James Barry comes to Collab.Net from International Business Machines, with a solid understanding of the Open Source Community and commercial software development. While at IBM, Barry initiated the WebSphere product line of Internet middleware servers and was pivotal in IBM's adoption of Apache. Barry worked with the Linux and Open Source strategy teams bringing IBM into the world of Open Source software as part of his strategy responsibilities."

"Collab.Net is distilling the essential processes of the Open Source community and providing tools and services that facilitate predictable, well-organized, high value open source development. The company's first service, sourceXchange, is a marketplace where Open Source developers match their expertise to committed buyers with well defined, financially backed Open Source projects."

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