IBM: People in the Open World: Stacey Quandt, Industry Analyst

“You don’t get to make too many mistakes if you want
people to buy your advice and opinions. Was it hard to learn enough
about Linux to feel comfortable making critical calls on trends and
strategies?

“Yes. It was hard at first. In the early days, I spent a lot of
time reading. I was printing out just about every news story but
the market was less mature in those days so technical data was
harder to find. I killed a lot of trees. At Giga there was an
attitude of putting ones feet to the fire. So I didn’t have a lot
of time to think about how comfortable I was in dispensing advice
Web sites such the Linux Documentation Project and LinuxToday
helped initially. However, I learned the most from developers in
the open source community, and through conferences and trade
shows…”

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