This week, the
Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) is taking place--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, and Erik Troan, founder and CTO of rPath
weighed in. In this final installment in the series, OStatic is very pleased to offer up a guest post from Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, on what's next for open source. Here it is, below the fold.?
