From Open Source to OpenAvenue

by Jim Highsmith

While the Open Source movement conjures up scary scenarios of "free software" for some and Microsoft-bashing for others, moving beyond the heavy rhetoric provides fresh insight into an emerging collaborative development model of software development. Wandering around the booths at a recent conference, I met Bill Guilmart of OpenAvenue, a company that is extending the Open Source model to collaborative development. I'm always attracted to any vendor booth with the word "collaboration" on its display. However, I'm usually disappointed when I start asking what they mean by collaboration. Most don't know. Bill did.

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From Open Source to OpenAvenue 30 November 2000