Wen's Blog: Who? Wen!

This is an interesting post by Larry Augustin on his observations of the differences in perception of Open Source in Europe vs US:  http://lmaugustin.typepad.com/lma/2008/09/commercial-open-source-in-europe-verses-the-us.html

Slashdot has this post tagged as 'flamebait' since Augustin concludes that the Europeans (and pretty much the rest of the world) is ahead of the US when it comes to adoption of commercial Open Source.  Not having ventured enough internationally (from a professional standpoint), I can't really agree or disagree, but given what I've seen on my travels, I wouldn't really be surprised.  Anyone care to weigh in?

Related News Update:

Two open source companies (Novell UK and Sirius) were granted access to UK's educational software sales pipeline.  In a traditionally pro-Microsoft country, this is certainly an interesting precedent: Read More.

Welcome to my little corner of the Sun blogosphere! My name is Wen and I have been with Sun since the beginning of 2008 as a Product (Marketing) Manager for the NetBeans IDE. Prior to joining Sun, I was an MBA student at the University of San Francisco (go Dons!) and in a former life, I was a PHP (and Java) developer for a small startup (RAZZ) and a not-so-small company (Winamp @ Time Warner).

While I spend most of my time focusing on marketing-ish activities, I'll still slip in some geek stuff here and there, mostly around PHP and Ajax development. In case you didn't know already, the NetBeans IDE now supports PHP (as an Early Access feature) as well as a kickass JavaScript editor developed by Sun and JavaPosse's Tor Norbye. Having stuck with an old copy of Homesite, I'm now happy to say that I've got a new editor/IDE in my life, and it's not just because I'm marketing it

So stay tuned for future posts about NetBeans, PHP, marketing, life at Sun, and whatever else I happen to be thinking about!

Cheers.