“SGI today announced that Paul F. McNamara has been named vice
president of open source for SGI. In this role, McNamara, 39, will
be responsible for formulating SGI’s plans and guiding its actions
as SGI strengthens its commitment to the Linux operating system and
the open-source movement. He will report to Kenneth L. Coleman,
executive vice president of Global Sales, Service and Marketing,
SGI.”
“SGI continues to demonstrate leadership in the open source
movement through our contributions of core technologies such as
OpenGL application programming interface and XFS file system
software,” said Kenneth L. Coleman, executive vice president of
Global Sales, Service and Marketing, SGI. “Paul’s experience will
be enormously valuable in both guiding and evangelizing our
strategy.”
“Prior to joining SGI, McNamara was vice president of business
development and later vice president of products and platforms for
Red Hat, where he was a key figure in Red Hat’s meteoric rise to
prominence in the computer industry. McNamara joined Red Hat in May
1998 and was responsible for negotiating and structuring Red Hat’s
industry-shaping relationships with Compaq, Dell, IBM, Intel,
Oracle, SAP and others. McNamara was also a key architect of Red
Hat’s subscription-based business model.”