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From PARC Open Innov Talk on 4/8 - 4-5pm

Saturday, Apr. 3, 2010

From PARC:

Title:
Open for business: Building successful commerce around open source
 
Speaker:
Mårten Mickos, CEO, Eucalyptus Systems
 
Date:
Thursday, April 8th, 2010  4:00pm – 5:00pm
 
Location:
George E. Pake Auditorium, PARC,
3333 Coyote Hill Rd, Palo Alto, California, USA
 
Description:
It is an intriguing but challenging proposition to build a successful commercial operation around successful open source projects. This presentation deals with the questions of communities and contributions, market disruption, open source business models, and start-up entrepreneurship.

Presenter:
Mårten Mickos builds global disruptive businesses. He is CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, a provider of open source software for private computing clouds. Previously he was CEO of MySQL AB for seven years, growing that company from a garage start-up to the second largest open source company in the world. After the acquisition by Sun Microsystems of MySQL AB, he served as Senior Vice President of Sun's Database Group until the end of March 2009. He held multi-national CEO and senior executive positions in his native Finland. He is a member of the board of RightScale, Electrosonic and Mozilla Messaging. Mickos holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology. In 2006 he received the Audemars Piguet "Changing Times Award: European Entrepreneur of the Year 2006" and the Nokia Foundation Award.
 
Talk Series:
Engineering Communities across the Internet
This talk is the first in a series exploring different perspectives on how people work together to get things done using the Web. The series presents new and existing technologies for collaboration, new practices that are emerging, and case studies with lessons learned in the management of real projects. We will hear about experiences in areas such as open source, strategies and technologies that enable engineering, and development communities with projects spanning participation-in-the-large to big impact from the agile few. This series will take place between March 25th and May 20, 2010.
 

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