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08-07-2009, 01:01 AM
CTO Aneesh Chopra got a pretty enthusiastic welcome when he visited the Silicon Valley this week. No surprise there, he is after all the United States’ first national CTO and probably felt right at home in the Tech world.
"He's a smart guy, he talks our language," said Jeremy Verba of the investment firm Foundation Capital
He spoke for 90 minutes at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, outlining an agenda that tries to balance short-term achievements that can be made "in 60 or 90 days" with longer-term policy efforts.
Chopra said his CTO agenda has three parts: Invest in "the building blocks of innovation," including a secure national infrastructure and an educated workforce; promote technologies that fulfill national priorities, such as fixing health care; and bring transparency to government through technology.
Hmm…Is the open source a part of the innovation and transparency goal? Asked how he'd overhaul the government's "legacy" computer systems to speed innovation, Chopra was respectfully non-committal.
"I'm a big fan of open collaboration, not specifically open source," he said. "I have no problem with people buying Microsoft and Oracle, but the challenge is the dollars spent on top of that afterwards, the custom development.":confused:
Not to worry. Hope is still alive being as Brian Behlendorf, who is a key player in the open source world ( and one of the developers of Apache web server) is one of Chopra's close associates and advisor about open source.
When asked to comment on Chopra’s open source policies, Brian had this to say: "He gets that the foundation of the Internet was built on it."
Source: InfoWorld
"He's a smart guy, he talks our language," said Jeremy Verba of the investment firm Foundation Capital
He spoke for 90 minutes at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, outlining an agenda that tries to balance short-term achievements that can be made "in 60 or 90 days" with longer-term policy efforts.
Chopra said his CTO agenda has three parts: Invest in "the building blocks of innovation," including a secure national infrastructure and an educated workforce; promote technologies that fulfill national priorities, such as fixing health care; and bring transparency to government through technology.
Hmm…Is the open source a part of the innovation and transparency goal? Asked how he'd overhaul the government's "legacy" computer systems to speed innovation, Chopra was respectfully non-committal.
"I'm a big fan of open collaboration, not specifically open source," he said. "I have no problem with people buying Microsoft and Oracle, but the challenge is the dollars spent on top of that afterwards, the custom development.":confused:
Not to worry. Hope is still alive being as Brian Behlendorf, who is a key player in the open source world ( and one of the developers of Apache web server) is one of Chopra's close associates and advisor about open source.
When asked to comment on Chopra’s open source policies, Brian had this to say: "He gets that the foundation of the Internet was built on it."
Source: InfoWorld