OSS Podcast February 19, 2008: Talking with Winston Damarillo, wearer of many open source hats - Open Source Software Up the Stack

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OSS Podcast February 19, 2008: Talking with Winston Damarillo, wearer of many open source hats

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In a recent blog I introduced Exist Global and its chairman Winston Damarillo. The news was that he was combining Exist Global, a software engineering services firm headquartered in the Philippines, with DevZuz, a developer of delivery platforms that link enterprise businesses to application development projects and processes. There were open source connections all over the merger.

But Winston is really interesting because he is also a founder of Webtide and chairman of Morph Labs and was a founder of Gluecode, which was sold to IBM in 2005, and LogicBlaze, which was acquired by Iona in 2007. These companies have products that are outgrowths of Apache Software Foundation (ASF) or other open-source-related projects—the Jetty Java web container, the Amazon EC2 environment, the Geronimo application server and the Synapse integration broker respectively. The latter became IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition, and part of Iona’s FUSE (see recent blog on Iona's Larry Alston) respectively.

In other words, if you are interested in making a business out of open source software (OSS) terms and conditions and its development model, Winston is a guy you need to hear.

Today in this podcast of about 5 minutes in length we hear from Winston Damarillo about the business of open source and the importance of community in building that business.