
Open source content management software vendor eZ Systems put former IBM executive Christoph Rau at the helm today as the company's new CEO. He's replacing co-founder Aleksander Farstad, who will become chief business development officer.
Farstad says the move is the next logical step following 10 years of sustained growth in the open source industry. For the first 10 years of eZ, we grew successfully by focusing on our unique commercial open source business model, says Farstad. Our value came from our focus on how we did things better. Now, as the commercial open source business model has matured and is well established, we will focus on what we do better than any other competitor: help businesses manage and publish any type of information, created and managed by anyone and published through any digital channel.?