Linux Foundation Names Markus Rex as CTO

Published: Jul 24, 2007
Updated: Feb 2, 2021
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The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit group dedicated to accelerating Linuxs growth, announced on July 24 that Markus Rex, a long-time Linux executive at SUSE Linux AG and Novell, will serve as the Foundations new chief technology officer.

This position had been held by Ian Murdock, one of the founders of Debian Linux, but he left the LF (Linux Foundation) to join Sun Microsystems as its chief operating platforms officer.

Rex will be on loan to the Linux Foundation from Novell during his term as the Foundations CTO. As the LFs CTO, Rex will help drive new standardization and technical initiatives around Linux and promote Linux adoption more broadly.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

I'm editor-at-large for Ziff Davis Enterprise. That's a fancy title that means I write about whatever topic strikes my fancy or needs written about across the Ziff Davis Enterprise family of publications. You'll find most of my stories in Linux-Watch, DesktopLinux and eWEEK. Prior to becoming a technology journalist, I worked at NASA and the Department of Defense on numerous major technological projects.

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