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Future Open Source Superstars

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 31, 2008

“This week’s Open Source Business Conference was a strange
meeting of Enterprise IT users, venture capitalists, and free
software entrepreneurs. The opening keynote was delivered by Red
Hat’s freshly minted CEO Jim Whitehurst who gave a very modest
speech noting that while Red Hat has been a leading open source
company they have not necessarily been an open source leader.

“Whitehurst’s presentation lacked anything especially insightful
or noteworthy and he has the advantage of being the new guy so he’s
off the hook for anything that might have happened before he took
the job…”

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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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