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Stephen Walli

Stephen Walli is Vice President of Open Source Development Strategy, Optaros, where he's responsible for developing and managing Optaros' relationships with the open source community. Previously Stephen was an advocate for open source at Microsoft, where he was focused on the technical implementation of open source-related community projects, creating a business model at Microsoft to engage in the open source community. Stephen was the Vice-president, R&D and a founder at Softway Systems, Inc, the developer of the Interix environment to re-host UNIX applications on NT. Stephen was also an independent consultant for X/Open, Sun, UNISYS, and the Canadian government. He was once a development manager at Mortice Kern Systems, and a systems analyst at EDS. A long time participant and officer at the IEEE and ISO POSIX standards groups, representing both USENIX and EUUG, he blogs on open source, standards, and the business of software at http://stephesblog.blogs.com/

Open Source Software, Standards, and Java

By Stephen Walli

Sun Microsystems recently announced its intentions of finally publishing Java under an Open Source license. But what does that actually mean? We'll take a quick look at what it means to be 'Open Source,' how the Java language specification compares to other more f...

Oct. 21, 2006 03:00 PM Reads: 19,773

Open Source Software, Standards, and Java

By Stephen Walli

Sep. 25, 2006 04:00 PM Reads: 11,847

Oracle Linux – Novell or Red Hat? (Hopefully Neither!)

By Stephen Walli

'Spending good money to get into other rapidly commoditizing businesses... seems a waste,' comments Stephen Walli in this commentary on Oracle's reported desire to deliver an entire stack of technology to customers by buying/creating a Linux distro.

Apr. 18, 2006 06:15 AM Reads: 21,877 Replies: 2

Red Hat-JBoss Analysis: "At the Very High Level, This Looks Good"

By Stephen Walli

'If Red Hat can introduce JBoss technology to a lot of its customers, this could be great for business growth, assuming the packaging works. But the reverse may not be true,' muses Stephen Walli, whom many people still associate most strongly with Microsoft's op...

Apr. 11, 2006 02:30 PM Reads: 12,231

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