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Amanda McPherson Marketing Director The Linux Foundation |
Amanda McPherson has effectively marketed enterprise and open source technology for over twelve years. Most recently, Amanda was director of marketing for the Free Standards Group, the certification and standardization authority for Linux. Prior to that she was director of marketing for Covalent Technologies, the leading provider of Apache Web server software. Previously, she served at two of the industry's largest public relations agencies -- Cunningham Communication and Burson-Marsteller -- where her work was recognized by an industry award from the Public Relations Society of America. At those agencies, she managed public relations, marketing and positioning campaigns for such clients as Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Corio, Novell, AlphaBlox and others. She was a core member of the marketing team responsible for the launch of the Java programming language in 1995. A published author, Amanda graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. |
- Submitted by Amanda McPherson on Aug 15, 2008
So the bloggers over at ZDNet have once again proclaimed the end of the operating system. Larry Dignan says:
The operating system may be losing its luster. In fact, you could argue that the operating system–Linux, OS X and Windows–will become an application that just happens to boot first. And hardware vendors are on to the OS’s diminishing importance.
He goes on to say:
- Submitted by Amanda McPherson on Aug 13, 2008
At the last Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, the late Joe Barr wrote up this exchange on day one of the conference:
- Submitted by Amanda McPherson on Aug 5, 2008
Deb Gage at the San Francisco Chronicle recently profiled a voting machine that will be given a tryout at a mock election at Linux World, opening today. Attendees of the conference will have the ability to cast their vote for one of the two candidates on the US presidential ticket. Besides obvious political fervor of many open source devotees, what’s the connection between this machine and Linux?