ownCloud Transforms Into A Company, Appoints CEO, CTO | Linux Today

ownCloud Transforms Into A Company, Appoints CEO, CTO

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 15, 2011

“Former SUSE/Novell executive Markus Rex is joining the company
as its first CEO and CTO. ownCloud has more than 350,000 users
around the globe. The company is opening its a HQ in Boston,
USA.

“Rex was former senior vice president and general manager in
charge of SUSE Linux at Novell. He also served as CTO of the Linux
Foundation, CTO for Linux at Novell and was SUSE’s first vice
president of Engineering. Karlitschek leads development and the
ownCloud Open Source Project and Community.”


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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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