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The Fountainhead

Xen Developers Conference Showcases the Future of the Virtualization and the Cloud

2011 XenSummit Features Keynote from Amazon Web Services

Submitted by Mark Hinkle on Wed, 08/03/11 - 1:05pm.

One of my favorite sayings is, “Open source software is as much about people as it is about technology.” This week in Santa Clara, CA over one hundred people active in the open source Xen hypervisor community – largely developers and power users – gathered to discuss the state of the popular open source hypervisor.

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Open source status report reveals good health and profits

Open source usage statistics show the staggering growth of the free software movement

Submitted by Mark Hinkle on Tue, 01/18/11 - 2:32pm.

Over the last 15 years I have been an avid user and “developer” (actually more of a facilitator) of open source software.

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About The Fountainhead

p>Mark is the Director of Cloud Computing Community at Citrix Systems where he is responsible for driving all of the community efforts around the company's open source cloud computing software, CloudStack. Mark joined Citrix in July 2011 as a result of their acquisition of Cloud.com where he was the VP of Community. Before that he was the force behind the Zenoss Core open source management project's adoption and community involvement, growing community membership to over 100,000 members. He is a co-founder of both the Open Source Management Consortium and the Desktop Linux Consortium, has served as Editor-in-Chief for both LinuxWorld Magazine and Enterprise Open Source Magazine, and authored the book "Windows to Linux Business Desktop Migration" (Thomson, 2006). Mark has also held executive positions at a number of technology start-ups, including Earthlink, Win4Lin and Emu Software.

The Fountainhead, is a reference to Ayn Rand's novel that asserts ego is what drives human progress and that the moral ideal is an end unto itself, not the pursuit of wealth. A fountainhead is also an abundant source; in the case of this column hopefully an abundant source of open source information.

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The thoughts and opinions shared on this blog are strictly that of the author and may or may not represent the position of his employer.

Disclosure: Mark Hinkle is an investor in open source management company Zenoss and employed by Citrix Systems, Inc., which partners with numerous open source and other vendors. He also has served as an advisor to MindTouch and SourceForge.net and often provides guidance to other open source entities.