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Ian Murdock

 
Chief Operating Systems Platform Strategist - Sun Microsystems Inc.
 
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Company Name : Sun Microsystems Inc.
 
Company Website : www.sun.com
 
Company Address : 4150 Network Cir.
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Ian Murdock Profile :
Chief Operating Systems Platform Strategist - Sun Microsystems Inc.
 
Ian Murdock Biography :

Ian Murdock is Chief OS Platform Strategist at Sun Microsystems and chair of the Linux Standard Base (LSB) the Linux platform interoperability standard. Prior to joining Sun Ian was CTO of the Linux Foundation (formed through the merger of OSDL and the Free Standards Group where he was CTO) and cofounder chairman and chief strategist of Progeny a Linux distribution vendor that builds custom Linux platforms for companies building server appliances and other Linux powered products. A longtime Linux user developer and advocate Ian founded the Debian project in 1993. Today Debian is one of the most popular Linux distributions in the world with millions of users worldwide. Debian is also widely considered one of the most successful and influential open source projects ever launched: More than 1 000 volunteers in all parts of the world are currently involved in Debian development and the founding document of the open source movement itself (the Open Source Definition) was originally a Debian position statement. Ian was also a founding director of Linux International (1993-1995) and the Open Source Initiative (1998-2001). Ian holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University

 
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