The story behind HP's FOSSology open source tools

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Sun, 01/27/2008 - 8:22pm

I recently spent some time talking with Christine Martino , HP's vice president of Linux and Open Source, about HP's plans to provide services around open-source software.

That HP is doing this is now old news .

(The news broke this week.)

But the truly interesting thing in this is HP itself. HP is an appropriate company to take this on, given the extent of its adoption of open source and the sophistication with which it manages...


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