There aren’t many serious, high growth, venture-backed technology companies here in Hampton Roads, VA.
We’re a military town. Heck, a military region! Hampton Roads is actually a group of seven cities: Norfolk, VA Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Hampton, Newport News, and Suffolk, encompassing the entire southeast Virginia region of the Chesapeake Bay. Hampton Roads is home to Norfolk Naval Base, the largest naval installation in the world, Langley Air Force Base,
NASA Langley, several army bases, and the
Oceana Naval Air Station. We are the largest metropolitan area without a professional baseball team, a fun but otherwise useless factoid. There are a lot of (1.7 million) people here, but the federal government is by far the largest employer. We are home only to
Norfolk Southern Railroad,
Stihl Chainsaws, and
Ferguson Enterprises.
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As background, I'm the CEO of Centric CRM, one of the vendors of open source software that has been at the fulcrum of a heated discussion centered around which vendors can rightly use the term "open source" when describing their products. While I normally stay out of such verbal jousts, I decided I ought to share our view point if only given the tone of some of the recent postings. Specifically, to address the sentiment of some that vendors using the term “open source”, whose offerings differ from the strict OSI definition, are either disingenuous at best, dishonest at worst.
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Over the last few days there has been some controversy about what open source is, which started with a post
from Dana Blankenhorn at ZDNet, and a reply from Michael Tiemann, the president of the OSI.
As the open source community breaks into two groups for a face-off about this (see DIGG, and SlashDot), I would like to offer our point of view.
At Centric CRM, we are dedicated to delivering value to our end customers. Our products are developed to satisfy their business needs and to provide them with the innovation, freedom and control they need for the software their business depends on.
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