Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

The trend of funding anything from the first $25k to funding $50 million at a billion+ valuation is unlikely to last as the skills and style to be effective at all stages are diverse enough to warrant focus. Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. Open source became a movement – a mentality.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? Was the fact that we were primarily using PHP essential, or could we add new tools written in other languages? Massive proprietary databases? I dont think so. Can the company dig into its tools when they fail and fix them?

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. It’s an *freaking open source*.net The list goes on and on.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107