Tom Manos is the CTO and co-founder of Centric CRM. A nationally respected Internet expert, Tom has founded and held senior technology posts at several other notable ventures including North Wall LLC, and NetworkTwo Communications Group. In 1993, he co-founded InfiNet, one of the very first national ISPs and the largest “private label” ISP in the world at that time. InfiNet was subsequently sold to Landmark Communications. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Tom had a distinguished career as a US Naval officer, including a successful stint as the Director of Computer Operations for the World Wide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS) for the Navy’s Atlantic Command. Tom is a long time member of the Executive Advisory Board of the International Engineering Consortium, holds seats on several other boards of directors and is a frequent speaker at telecommunications industry conferences. Tom has a BS in Electrical Engineering and his MS in Computer Science. He lives with his wife, Gail and their two children in Chesapeake, VA.
A quick Google search of "enterprise Open Source" returns over 1.5 million
results. There are Web sites devoted to the topic; there are dedicated
conferences and trade shows, and even a fairly large number of books. There's
even a magazine - the one now in your hands! - devoted entirely to the
subject of enterprise Open Source. Most of these sources discuss using Open
Source applications and infrastructure in one's business, and tacitly assume
that this defines enterprise Open Source. This implied definition falls short
of what I think of when envisioning an "Open Source enterprise application"
however.
This article investigates a more rigorous rationale for the term and
describes what's necessary for a particular piece of software to call itself
"enterprise Open Source." It also describes a growing movement in Open
Source: the enterprise Open Source application.
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Tom Manos is the CTO and co-founder of Centric CRM. A nationally respected Internet expert, Tom has founded and held senior technology posts at several other notable ventures including North Wall LLC, and NetworkTwo Communications Group. In 1993, he co-founded InfiNet, one of the very first national ISPs and the largest “private label” ISP in the world at that time. InfiNet was subsequently sold to Landmark Communications. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Tom had a distinguished career as a US Naval officer, including a successful stint as the Director of Computer Operations for the World Wide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS) for the Navy’s Atlantic Command. Tom is a long time member of the Executive Advisory Board of the International Engineering Consortium, holds seats on several other boards of directors and is a frequent speaker at telecommunications industry conferences. Tom has a BS in Electrical Engineering and his MS in Computer Science. He lives with his wife, Gail and their two children in Chesapeake, VA.
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