If you're on the CIO site, you may have seen my blog here, referenced in Esther's intro. As a more general introduction, I run Navica, which is an open source management consultancy that works with organizations to help them take advantage of open source and address open source risks. I've worked in large IT shops and large enterprise software vendors, so know the proprietary software world quite well.

When I was exposed to open source, I recognized that its characteristics and cost advantage would transform enterprise IT and resolved to understand it better. After a lot of research, conversations, consulting, and so on, I decided to write a book giving a CIO-level perspective on the topic ("Succeeding with Open Source," Addison-Wesley, 2005).

I think we're still in the early days of enterprise open source adoption, but that it will change the way IT is done in the future. It's already transformed software vendors and Web 2.0 companies here in Silicon Valley, where I am located.