OStatic

By Allan Leinwand, a venture partner with Panorama Capital and founder of Vyatta. He was also the CTO of Digital Island.

I was having lunch with Kelly Herrell, the CEO of Vyatta (one of our portfolio companies) and he gave me a great quote on why the momentum of open source software is impossible to fight. Kelly said, ﾓCompetitors can try to lock the front door of an enterprise and effectively stop traditional software vendors from entering the building, but it is impossible to stop free bits from coming in over the network.ﾔ