Aaron Roe(bot) Fulkerson Open source entrepreneur and digital viking.
About Me
I am a founder and the Chief Executive Officer of MindTouch, a popular open source business application and collaboration platform used by millions. Read more.
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October 14, 2007 — Aaron FulkersonLinuxWorld 2007
August 14, 2007 — Aaron FulkersonPete, Corey and I attended LinuxWorld last week. A good time was had by all. I bumped into Ethan, the author of Nagios. It was good to see him again. I was surprised that given his recent modeling boon he doesn't yet have an entourage. Soon I'm sure.
MindTouch had a booth in the Novell pavilion. As always we blew some minds with Deki Wiki and dropped some jaws. Traffic to the booth was great and we set another one-day record for downloads of Deki Wiki. Aside from the big spike we're now averaging around 500 downloads a day and still growing strong.
The show should have been called Novell-World. Novell was every where. I enjoyed re-connecting with Frank Rego and Josh. These guys are great. Also, I got a chance to meet Mattias, the PM for SLES. Seemed like a good guy. Much thanks to Novell for helping us to have a presence at LinuxWorld, you guys are wonderful.
Highlights. Well, meeting the dudes from OpenVZ was cool. Pete and I got a killer OpenVZ shirt. I'll Flickr a photo of it later. It has the commands for creating, status-ing, and taking down a VZ. Cool stuff. In general I did well on the tshirt front. I only made it to a couple sessions. I prefer to man the booth. As always, I really enjoy to folks about Deki Wiki. The best of those I attended was a talk on GPLv3 with a dude from the Software Freedom Law Center. I enjoyed meeting Robin Miller, and Peter Galli from eWeek whom I just happened into lunch with, reconnecting with Ross from SF.net and I was stoked to get a Debian shirt (etcha-sketch model). Pete was super enthusiastic about a couple VMware presentations. If only I had a shot at their IPO.
They have such a compelling technology.Overall summary of LinuxWorld: more suits than I expected, but I'm really glad to have been there. How else would I have met Amazon's head of S3?
Hayes VM Available
August 7, 2007 — Aaron FulkersonI spent last week riding a motorcycle about Florida and watching dolphins. Tara, Ashby, and I had a blast in Daytona, FL with our much needed family vacation. I’ll put up a write up as soon as I have time.
Our new VM is available for download. www.getdekiwiki.com. Based on the big spike in downloads in the last few hours it seems many of you have already noticed. We also have new support plans and pricing. You’ll find these are very affordable. Please buy.
I’ll be at LinuxWorld with PeteE and Corey for the next few days. We’re in the Novell pavilion. If any of you are here. Stop by and see us.
Novell: Public Service Announcement
March 10, 2005 — Aaron FulkersonNovell: Public Service Announcement
This is wonderfully amusing. “I’m crashing man, I need a patch.”
Seven open source business strategies for competitive advantage
January 19, 2005 — Aaron FulkersonSeven open source business strategies for competitive advantage
Open source presents a large potential competitive advantage for hardware and software vendors, and vendors of complementary or substitute services. Linux has contributed greatly to the adoption and success of OSS. Companies such as IBM, HP, Red Hat, Oracle, and recently, Novell, have invested in, and legitimized the use of Linux for enterprise applications — including datacenter operations.
Linux-related services deliver more than $1 billion in annual revenue to both IBM and HP. Oracle strongly promotes and likewise derives revenue from the Linux platform, with the so-called “unbreakable Linux” guarantee. In an attempt to catch the Linux wave, companies such as Computer Associates and Peoplesoft are porting their applications to Linux on ambitious timeframes.
In this article, we examine seven open source strategies that can give your company a competitive advantage. (Editor’s note: Each of the following links will take you directly to a particular section of the story.)
