LinuxWorld.com: CA’s ‘Mr Linux,’ Passionate Mixer of Oil and Water

“Meeting for any length of time with the man tapped by
far-sighted Computer Associates CEO Sanjay Kumar to act as the
Islandia, New York-based, company’s open-source pathfinder and
visionary is an experience that few people recently have been able
fully to appreciate… and even fewer to achieve.

“Every hour of Greenblatt’s day and every day of his week is
consumed–that is, for once, not too extreme a word–with Linux.
Because CA, uniquely in Greenblatt’s view, is that rara avis, a
commercial software business that has realized that open-source
innovation isn’t just an interesting adjunct to the commercial
paradigm: it is going to be the undoing of every major player today
who remains in (what he would view as) denial.

“‘People familiar with the dynamics of commercialized computing
ask me how many developers will support such-and-such a Linux
solution,” and I tell them “Four hundred thousand–but I can’t put
a name to a single one of them…!'”

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