The
Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) is coming up, to be held March 24th and 25th at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The conference will include much discussion on the future of open source. In preparation, OStatic has been? running a series of guest posts on this theme, featuring thought leaders from top open source projects.
We checked in with Dries Buytaert, founder of the
Drupal content management system, and co-founder of
Acquia. Martin Schneider, director of product marketing for
SugarCRM, weighed in on
the open cloud, and Novell VP Justin Steinman
wrote about open source and mass customization. Brian Gentile, CEO of
Jaspersoft, also discussed
the consumerization of information. In this latest installment in the series, we have a guest post on the future of open source from Erik Troan, founder and CTO of
rPath, which offers a platform for software vendors to create and maintain software appliances and virtual appliances in multiple virtual machine formats.
