Explore Sand Hill Topics: open source

Kathleen Goolsby, Editor - SandHill.com

SandHill’s sponsors and some of our frequent content contributors predict where we’ll see the biggest competitive battles in the software ecosystem in 2012 as well as how U.S. 2012 elections will impact the software world.

Kathleen Goolsby, Editor - SandHill.com

Launched in 2006, Virtual Bridges is ranked as a top 10 virtualization company. CEO Jim Curtin explains why and shares startup advice.

Irfan Khan, SVP and Chief Technology Officer - Sybase

Lowering the speed at which trades can be completed – referred to as latency – is a way to find an edge in stock exchanges and in the highly competitive financial services industry as a whole. To stay ahead of competitors, pacesetters in the financial services industry’s race to zero latency are reconciling how they think about technology.

Michael J. Skok, General Partner - North Bridge Venture Partners

The 2011 Future of Open Source Survey revealed insights into the future of open source software. Findings include its impact as a driver in SaaS, Cloud and Big Data solutions. Analysis of the data also reveals a new set of value propositions as well as a warning of a potential trap.

Tim Yeaton, CEO - Black Duck Software

The closed view of the datacenter is being obliterated in almost every dimension by the open source movement, virtualization and cloud. Enterprises today are acquiring open source components to speed development, their developers actively participating in open source communities. Code is moving on a two-way street, open source flowing in from outside the Enterprise and contributions of code flowing back out to community and project sites. At the same time virtualization and cloud technologies, mostly built on open source, have disaggregated and distributed "glass house" compute resources beyond the physical boundaries of the enterprise.