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215 Open-Source Business Influencers – Linus Torvalds
315 Open-Source Business Influencers – Mitchell Baker
415 Open-Source Business Influencers – Mike Milinkovich
515 Open-Source Business Influencers – Tim Golden
615 Open-Source Business Influencers – Jim Zemlin
715 Open-Source Business Influencers – Peter Fenton and Larry Augustin
Fenton and Augustin are two prominent venture capitalists who specialize in open source. Fenton joined Benchmark Capital in 2006 after seven years at Accel Partners, where his investments included JBoss, XenSource and Zimbra. Augustin, one of the group who coined the term “open source,” founded VA Linux, launched SourceForge.net, and is now an angel investor and advisor to early-stage tech firms.
815 Open-Source Business Influencers – Jim Jagielski
915 Open-Source Business Influencers – Michael Tiemann
1015 Open-Source Business Influencers – Marten Mickos
1115 Open-Source Business Influencers – Marc Fleury
1215 Open-Source Business Influencers – Rod Johnson
Johnson is CEO of SpringSource, developer of the Spring Framework for speeding development of Java apps for enterprise servers. SpringSource caused a buzz in January by acquiring Covalent, whose products and services target Apache Software Foundation projects, such as the Tomcat and Geronimo application servers.
1315 Open-Source Business Influencers – Jonathan Schwartz
1415 Open-Source Business Influencers – Mark Shuttleworth
1515 Open-Source Business Influencers – John Roberts
Roberts is the co-founder, chairman and CEO of SugarCRM, which put open-source CRM (customer relationship management) software on the map. Roberts established SugarCRM’s commercial open-source business model, co-led the product design of SugarCRM products and helped build the Sugar Community into one of the largest open-source communities on the Web.