The open source Cloud Foundry Foundation has its first leader on its board now with the newly appointed CEO, Sam Ramji. On 9 December, the Foundation was officially launched and its back-end operations have been looked after by the Linux Foundation until now.
When the Foundation was launched, executive director of the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin announced that the new group's leadership will be named in the coming days. In a conversation with Datamation, Zemlin told that Ramji is the best choice when it comes to application development, cloud and open source space. Ramji is a popular figure in the open source community. He worked with Microsoft from 2004 to 2009 and he had immense contribution to build a relationship between Microsoft and the open source community.
To deliver a keynote address at OSCON 2008 conference, Ramji was dressed in a Firefox t-shirt and was greeted with applause by the audience. Ramji is the CEO of the Cloud Foundry Foundation and not the executive director, while the latter is most common in such Foundations. Ramji has told Datamation that their aim is to drive the Foundation as the fastest growing software startup in the world. Ramji will look after growing the ecosystem of developers and apps as well as expansion of membership. The Cloud Foundry PaaS project started as an open source project at VMware in 2011 and was later handed over to Pivotal, its sister company.
Cloud Foundry Foundation has already some big names in its membership list including EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Pivotal, SAP and Vmware, and all of these companies are platinum members. The Foundation already has more than 40 member companies on the board. Ramji also aims to demonstrate commercial success for the Cloud Foundry community. The Foundation's board of directors include John Roese from EMC, Bill Hilf from HP, Ajay Patel from VMware, Christopher Ferris from IBM, Sanjay Patil from SAP, Nicholas Weaver from Intel, Rob Mee from Pivotal, Marco Hochstrasser from Swisscomm and Bart Copeland from ActiveState.
Courtesy: Datamation
When the Foundation was launched, executive director of the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin announced that the new group's leadership will be named in the coming days. In a conversation with Datamation, Zemlin told that Ramji is the best choice when it comes to application development, cloud and open source space. Ramji is a popular figure in the open source community. He worked with Microsoft from 2004 to 2009 and he had immense contribution to build a relationship between Microsoft and the open source community.
To deliver a keynote address at OSCON 2008 conference, Ramji was dressed in a Firefox t-shirt and was greeted with applause by the audience. Ramji is the CEO of the Cloud Foundry Foundation and not the executive director, while the latter is most common in such Foundations. Ramji has told Datamation that their aim is to drive the Foundation as the fastest growing software startup in the world. Ramji will look after growing the ecosystem of developers and apps as well as expansion of membership. The Cloud Foundry PaaS project started as an open source project at VMware in 2011 and was later handed over to Pivotal, its sister company.
Cloud Foundry Foundation has already some big names in its membership list including EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Pivotal, SAP and Vmware, and all of these companies are platinum members. The Foundation already has more than 40 member companies on the board. Ramji also aims to demonstrate commercial success for the Cloud Foundry community. The Foundation's board of directors include John Roese from EMC, Bill Hilf from HP, Ajay Patel from VMware, Christopher Ferris from IBM, Sanjay Patil from SAP, Nicholas Weaver from Intel, Rob Mee from Pivotal, Marco Hochstrasser from Swisscomm and Bart Copeland from ActiveState.
Courtesy: Datamation
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