Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. Facebook is a “platform cloud&# provider, too.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

In 2012 the company rolled out Inktank, an innovative open source storage solution based on Ceph’s distributed file system, which was subsequently sold to Red Hat for $175 million. Even the most conservative companies began adopting the open-source LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) to dynamically create and maintain their websites.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Networking Software 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. Talk to companies that have taken this money and see if they’ve gotten support. They do many early-stage deals.

Seed Funding 283

Seed Funding Venture Capital Funding Software Review 283

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform. Some other points - LAMP,Net, Java - doesn't make much difference. First company built on top of EMC, Unix servers, field sales to large clients. Interestingly it was same developers in both companies.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150