Another interview hit the wire last week entitled "BMC Software's William Hurley: A Penguin Among Sharks". I thought I'd share a link to it along with these excerpts:

"This isn't about trying to jump onto the open source marketing bandwagon. It's about directly interacting with customers in how you can apply open source to build better products. I'm a guy who likes a challenge, and even with the support of the management team that I have here, you're still talking about a very large company, a pretty big ship," said BMC Software's William Hurley.

Dossier:

Name: William 'whurley' Hurley
Title: Chief architect of open source strategy
Organization: BMC Software
Location: Houston - This should be Austin ;)
Favorite movies: "The Big Lebowski" and "Office Space"
Previous career that most people don't know about: Member of a touring funk band; plays guitar, bass, drums and keyboards
Wheels: A lime-green 2006 Scion XB
Favorite food: Sushi and other Asian cuisines
Current read: The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
Favorite place to take his 11-year-old son: Dave & Buster's arcade and sports bar. "He loves the zombie games; he can't get enough of those. And he loves winning tickets in the game machines."

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