— with Don Harbison, Marketing Manager, Notes/Domino Product Marketing
Linux Journal: Why Linux now?
Harbison: Customer demand. When our president and CEO Jeff Papas announced at out Lotusphere event in January that we were adding Linux as the newest platform to the Domino stable of platforms, he got a standing ovation from 10,000 business partners and customers in this Disney World ballroom. It was huge. And if you go to our site, you'll find that now is the first time we've made code publicly available.
Linux Journal: What's the difference for you, now that you're overlapping with the open source world?
Harbison: In the open source world, the technical community has the ability to influence the direction of the OS. So the tool kit is not hostaged by one entity. This also gives us a new model for rapid development of innovation. It's exciting.