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Serial Entrepreneurs Find OSS “A No-Brainer”

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 12, 2007

“Together, Isaac Garcia and Arnulf Hsu have launched several
successful businesses, including two that were eventually purchased
by CNET. Garcia and Hsu were firmly in the Microsoft development
camp, but recently they noticed what they call the increasing
maturity of open source software. They decided to launch their
latest endeavor, CentralDesktop.com (CD), using an open source
platform.

“Garcia and Hsu used to work at CNET–Garcia in sales and Hsu in
marketing. While there, they noticed how hard it was to collaborate
across the company using email or other legacy information-sharing
tools…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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