Vancouver, 2012-02-17 – One of my first tasks when I
started at MySQL AB was to write an introduction letter for
myself. At the time, we had a small team that was widely
distributed across much of the world and the introduction letter
(and yearly all-hands meetings) were important parts of helping
our small team work effectively.
As I've worked with different organizations, I've tried to
continue the habit – when I start somewhere new, I write a
relatively personal introduction and encourage others to do the
same.
Here's the letter that I wrote for the Magnolia team.
Thank you Boris! Greetings All,I'm quite happy and excited to be
joining the Magnolia team: the product is solid, the people I've
interacted with have been great and the company culture seems a
good match for me. Also, it doesn't hurt that a dear friend
(Sandro Groganz) speaks really highly of Magnolia as a whole.If
you are really pressed …
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# Funambol appointed Amit Chawla as its new CEO.
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On open source and SMBs
Savio Rodrigues contrasted Dell’s plans to target SMBs with
bundles of hardware and open source with research from Forrester
that indicated that SMBs are still wary of open source, while
Matt Asay noted
that there are significant opportunities for open source vendors
if they can work out how to crack the SMB market and suggested
that the way to make software easier for SMBs and to monetize it
might actually be cloud-based computing.
OStatic noted that the issue may well be one of lack of awareness and that Dell’s initiative, as well as the …
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