Ian Berry

Learning how to solve existing problems is one of the keys to developing a successful product. Learning when to turn to the open source community to facilitate innovation is another quality that more and more companies are beginning to realize. The BitLeap story provides a real-world example of how new companies can innovate with open source and thereby create something new and useful. As the founder of the popular open source Cacti project, BitLeap co-founder Ian Berry understood the merits of open source software. Hear how BitLeap incorporates open source to deliver cost-effective backup services. First of all, interacting in the open source community comes with responsibility. Of course there's the responsibility of abiding by open source license stipulations and publishing code patches and alterations. However, there's a more intrinsic responsibility - simply to ... (more)