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June 21, 2007 9:38 PM PDT

The Open Source CEO: Ranga Rangachari, Groundwork (Part 9)

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In this ninth installment of the Open Source CEO Series, I spoke with Ranga Rangachari, CEO of Groundwork, an open source IT management company.

IT Groundwork has been around for several years; in fact, it was one of the first open source startups I discovered when organizing the first Open Source Business Conference back in 2003/04. The company was doing well at the time, but I believe it was Ranga's influence (starting in 2005) that has ratcheted up the company's profile and performance.

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Ranga Rangachari, CEO, Groundwork.
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Tags:: Groundwork,; open source,; Ranga Rangachari,; IT management

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Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to the Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is general manager of the Americas division and vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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