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"The great thing about being an engineer is the continuous quest for precision and accuracy, for the answer to an everyday life question or for a finite element analysis.  eQuorum started as an engineering company 20 years ago, and to some extent we still are.  At least half the staff are either engineers by background or have experience in related fields like architecture.  You don't often find this in a software company where there are mostly computer science degrees creating the products."

in 2010 we saw open source pervade every area of software, and it became particularly evident in the strategies of web giants like Facebook and Google.\n\nFor such companies, open source wasn't a business model, per se. Instead, it became an essential element of a great variety of business models, each baking in open-source complements to drive some form of proprietary value elsewhere. 2010 was the year that open source ceased to be a competitive differentiator for vendors and instead became standard operating procedure for everyone...even Microsoft (though still to a small extent for the Redmond giant).