Quote of the Week

Jun 06, 2008 in Open Source, Quotes

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"No one is going to run a mission critical application on Windows.  It has a tendency to crash."

Jim Whitehurst

Open Source Cluster

Jun 04, 2008 in Open Source, Startups

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Atlanta has long been known as  a center for the InfoSec industry.  It seems that ISS alum with the quiet support of Tom Noonan spawned a nice little cluster of well over 30 startups.

Well leave it to a guy from North Carolina to point out that another such cluster is raising in Atlanta.  An open source cluster led by JBoss alum.   With the support of Marc Fluery.  Who does nothing quietly.

In an article explaining why Marc is his hero, Mark Hinkle lays out the following:

I think one of the biggest contributions Marc made to open source was that he infected a bunch of guys with the bug to go make it on their own. Many of them walked away with more than a little pocket cash and they started their own open source companies. Here’s a list of JBoss alumns and what they are up to now.

Appcelerator - Rich Internet Applications
JBoss alumni: Jeff Haynie, Ben Sabrin, Matt Quinlin

LoopFuse - Marketing and Sales Automation
JBoss Alumni - Roy Russo, Tom Elrod

RingSide Networks - Social Networking Server
Jboss Alumni - Bob Bickel, Rich Friedman, Mark Lugert, Shaun Connolly

All of these companies made Mark's list of future open source superstars.  The beginnings of I nice OSS cluster in Atlanta. 

And finally I have news for you.  The real reason Marc F is not Mark Hinkle's hero... I AM! : )