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Great Googley Moogley

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 26, 2007

“I was in an Irish pub in downtown Portland, contemplating
ordering my third beer of the evening, when a force of energy
dressed in black and carrying a very large skateboard shouted my
name and threw himself into my field of admittedly narrowing
vision.

“The man in black was William (whurley) Hurley, who’s work in
the open source community is highly regarded. The fact that he’s a
pretty good socializer and could conceivably kill you with his
pinkie, well, that doesn’t hurt, either. Currently, whurley is the
Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software, Inc.,
otherwise known as the BMC open source guru…”

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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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