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William Hurley: Conversation about Open Source, Part 1

This is from the July 13th update at EnterpriseLeadership.

William Hurley
Chief architect of open source strategy
BMC Software, Inc.

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In an effort to bring a consistent message about open source to customers and to partners, and to participate more actively in the open source community, BMC in 2007 hired William Hurley (aka whurley), an open source activist, IBM Master Inventor, and chairman of the Open Management Consortium, a non-profit organization advancing the adoption, development, and integration of open source systems management.

Whurley's role as chief architect of open source strategy has many facets to it. BMC's executives depend on guidance for anything that has to do with open source. Whurley contributes to the company's open source strategy, as well as carries it out. As an evangelist, he is the BMC open source voice at IT venues. He manages BMC's presence in the open source community by getting customers involved with it. In fact, management has encouraged whurley to maintain all of his open source community connections.

In the second podcast, whurley, without mincing words, will talk about a meeting that he and 30 other open source illuminaries had at Microsoft to discuss that company's position on openness. Whurley talks about what he observed at that meeting. He also discusses his challenge of maintaining the balance between BMC's marketing efforts and the involvement of BMC customers in helping to develop products that will leverage open source.