Benoit des Ligneris : Open Source CEO

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Last Friday, I did a presentation to a group of medium businesses. The audience was about 20 IT directors of businesses between 100 and 500 employees (Medium Businesses . A first presentation was made by another presenter about Open Source in general : basic principles, licence/freedom, ecosystem,  business model. As a consequence, we could say that Free Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) was introduced before my talk.

Embedded Linux : common trends

More and more of the Linux ecosystem (PC hardware vendor, phone hardware vendor, search engine giant and more recently a well known Linux distro, Ubuntu) uses Linux as an embedded system for the desktop. Some examples to illustrate this trend :

• Asus Express gate embed Linux in the motherboard. You can have, in a few seconds, a browser, skype, etc.
• Google Chrome OS : not yet released but it is define as the Web OS with a minimalist/zen approach (like an OS based on Chrome, the browser)
  

What is the cloud ... without its marketing tag ?

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During the 2010 thinktank in Napa, one of the participant asked the audience the following question "How could we help organizations to contribute to Open Source software".

Well, I can't really believe it :  with a brand new bike in my house and a natural desire to ride it, weather is not cooperating !

In order to convince myself, I did a video of this "event" :

Disclaimer : I'm not that much a "weather" person, most of the time, I'm very happy with whatever mother nature is giving us. Instead of a bike ride, I went to a run but I've found the timing to be particularly bad.

Weapon of pure speed !

As some of you may know, I will race Ironman Lake Placid later this year (25th of July 2010).

Of course, I'm currently in the middle of my training and I wanted to invest in a Triathlon / Time Trial bike.

When I noticed this book in Washingon Dulles airport, as a Ubuntuer myself, I did not resist the urge to buy it ;-)

I'm very proud to be the CEO of a young company that recently obtained a certification called "Out-standing Employer" (Newspaper link , in French only : Employeur Remarquable).

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