Business development: the Aras approach

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Roberto Galoppini
on January 16, 2007
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Aras Corporation, specialized in commercial open source solutions for enterprise product lifecycle management (PLM), Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), yesterday announced the availability of the version 8 of the Aras Innovator suite.

Aras, a privately held company with institutional investors like Oak Investment Partners, Greylock Partners, Matrix Partners and the angel group eCoast Angels, hosts its open source projects on Microsoft’s CodePlex collaborative development website.

Bill Hilf, the General Manager of Microsoft’s Platform Strategy, stated:

We are supportive of Aras’ move to offer enterprise open source solutions on the Microsoft stack, and we continue to see tremendous growth in the Microsoft partner ecosystem as a variety of industry partners are finding innovative ways to take advantage of the value of the Microsoft platform under a wide range of licensing models.

So Microsoft likes open source this way, but is the world ready for Microsoft Open Source?

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Roberto Galoppini on Open Source Software
Roberto has over 20 years experience in the computer industry, and has spent the last 10 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he also served on some advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. He works at SourceForge, and opinions expressed here don't necessarily represent employer's positions, strategies, or opinion.