"EchoDitto helps its clients create online communities. It believes in open source software and relies heavily on the Drupal content management system both internally and for its customers. EchoDitto CTO and co-founder Justin Pinder says it's the community that makes open source invaluable.
"Pinder is not a stranger to the open source world. Even though he's only 31, he has been 'dabbling in Internet technology' for 18 years. 'My father was a professor and he got me access to a supercomputer,' he says. 'So I've been playing around with Unix and Linux for quite a while...'"