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Portland software developers ratchet up their open source ambitions

February 27, 2011 /

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Luke Kanies is turning pro.

The Reed College alum was 29 when he created an open source software tool called Puppet for managing data centers and other big computer networks. His project took off, winning adoption from a community of like-minded enthusiasts who deployed it at Twitter, Google, the New York Stock Exchange and many other organizations.

And so Kanies, now a 35-year-old CEO, is pushing Puppet up a notch, pitching a newly crafted, commercial version of the tool geared to make it more broadly accessible. His small shop, which moved to Portland from Tennessee with just three staffers in 2009, has 33 today.

By Mike Rogoway, The Oregonian

Full Story: http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2011/02/portland_software_developers_r.html

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