Open Software: Opportunities Abound

There are at least two common themes that keep recurring when the concept of building a business from open software comes up: 'How can you make money from something that's free?' and 'All the good niches are taken.' This presentation attempts to address both of these questions.


Ken Coar
Ken Coar is a director and Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation, and a Senior Software Engineer with IBM. He has over two decades of experience with network software and applications, system administration, system programming, process analysis, technical support, and computer security. Ken knows more than a dozen programming languages, but mostly writes in Perl, PHP, and C. He has worked with the World-Wide Web since 1992, been involved with Apache since 1996, is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, and is involved in the project to develop Internet RFCs for CGI. He is the author of 'Apache Server for Dummies' and co-author of 'Apache Server Unleashed' and 'Apache Cookbook'. He somewhat spastically maintains a Web log, 'The Rodent's Burrow', at http://Ken.Coar.Org/burrow/ .

Ken currently lives in North Carolina, USA, with a variable number of cats, several computers, many many books and films, and has varieties of furry woodland and feathered creatures frolicking at his (second-storey) door. He is deliriously happily married, and his significantly better half, who has blessed his existence for more than two decades, is to blame for it. She is also responsible for most of Ken's successes, and certainly for what remains of his sanity.




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