Microsoft funded Apache so I am going on vacation next week

by Dave Rosenberg

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Now that my work in convincing Microsoft to love open source is complete I can take a break. I will be on vacation next week. Blogging is doubtful. Go read a book.

Dave Rosenberg dishes up "Software, Interrupted" with nearly 15 years of technology and marketing experience that spans from Bell Labs to multiple start-up IPOs to open-source enterprise software companies. He is co-founder of MuleSource and currently serves as the general manager of Hardy Way. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can contact Dave via e-mail at softwareinterrupted@gmail.com.

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by Matt Asay July 25, 2008 8:58 PM PDT: You're not going on vacation, Dave. You're going to San Diego. For two days. With your baby. If you feel relaxed by the end of that, I'll buy you a spa treatment. :-); Reply to this comment

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In "Software, Interrupted," Dave Rosenberg discusses disruption in the software market, as well as the products and services that keep business technology norms in perpetual flux.

With nearly 15 years of technology and marketing experience spanning from Bell Labs to multiple start-up IPOs, Dave co-founded open-source software company MuleSource and now serves as general manager of Hardy Way. He also happens to be a U.S. patent holder and a workaholic. Technology is his best friend and mortal enemy.

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