“A lot can happen in five years.
“Sitting in an interview on the 16th-floor offices of a downtown
San Francisco skyscraper, Art Tyde, founder of Linuxcare, stares
out the window and reflects on that fact.”
“Even for a technical-type like Tyde, the swift change of events
has been a bewildering experience.
“I remember when Java came out,” he says. “It’s like one day
you’re saying, ‘What the heck is this Java thing?’ The next day,
there’s eight bookcases over at Borders full of Java books. You’re
like, ‘What train did I miss?'”
“Whatever train it was, Tyde has no intention of missing it
twice.”