Free Software Linux

One of the central features of the Open Enterprise blog will be interviews with key players in the free software world. By getting the background from the open horse's mouth – or should that be horse's open mouth? - I hope that we can gain a deeper understanding of what's really going on in the business use of open source. And who better to begin this series than the UK's Mr Open Source, Mark Taylor? He cut his hacker teeth on a 'Kim-1', which had a 6502 processor with 1k of memory and had to be programmed in machine code from a hexadecimal keypad, before later moving on to work with grown-up code like Samba, OpenLDAP and Squid. Prior to founding the open source consultancy, support and training company Sirius in 1998, he was the technical director of an IT Management training company. He is best known today as President of the Open Source Consortium (OSC) - and scourge of the BBC. For more about both, insight into where enterprise open source stands today, and what remains to be done – read on.