The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), an advocacy
group that promotes Linux use in corporate computing, has hired a
22-year IT veteran as its chief executive officer.
Stuart Cohenreplaces interim CEO Jerry Greenberg, who will
remain on the OSDL board.
Cohen, 43, previously served as vice president of marketing and
business development and as a corporate officer at embedded systems
vendor RadiSys, where his responsibilities included strategic
partnership development.
He also worked as vice president of worldwide marketing for
projection supplier InFocus, and for 17 years at IBM, where he held
senior positions in sales and marketing in the personal computer
and networking divisions, with international experience in Europe,
Southeast Asia and China.
Cohen said he has been meeting with the group's sponsor members,
which include IBM, Cisco Systems, Computer Associates
International, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, NEC, Red Hat and SuSE Linux,
to find out what the IT world still needs to do to promote Linux
within the business community.
One move Cohen said he would like to make is to create an
industry council made up of analysts, journalists and
representatives of software and infrastructure companies, who would
be able to share their insights about what they are hearing about
Linux from suppliers and customers in the market.
The OSDL provides engineering and technical assistance to Linux
developers worldwide, with state-of-the-art data centres in Japan
and the US. The OSDL also co-ordinates technical working groups
focused on hardening Linux for data centre and carrier-grade
computing environments. group's leadership role in championing
Linux-based development projects for business-critical
applications.