Raven Zachary

Raven Zachary

Former Analyst

Biography

Raven was the Open Source Research Director for The 451 Group and covered open source software and its impact on software vendors, end user organizations, and the investment community. He was also responsible for the 451 Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Service, which produced a regular series of research reports and provided ongoing advisory services to clients.

Prior to joining The 451 Group, Raven was the Senior Technical Editor and Consulting Industry Analyst for Enterprise Open Source Journal, and the editor of The Open Source Update, an open source industry newsletter. He was also the principal of o*rev, an enterprise open source consulting firm working with enterprise IT and software vendors on open source strategy.

Before launching o*rev, Raven was Director of Internet Technology for La Quinta Inns, a nationwide lodging company, where he implemented an open source e-commerce system. Raven's success with open source at La Quinta has been featured in a number of magazines, including Information Week, CIO, Optimize and Application Development Trends. He has spoken on the topic of open source at a number of industry conferences, including the CIO Executive Summit, JBoss World, the Cognizant Community Conference and the Information Week Conference.

Raven has also served as Director of Engineering and Site Manager of the Austin, Texas, office for Excite@Home. During his time at Excite, Raven had direct experience building robust, scalable, consumer Internet services for one of the leading Internet companies. His early work history includes the creation of Studio X, an Internet service provider and Web design company, in early 1994, as well as work with the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and Radio Free Europe in Prague.

In 1998 Raven cofounded The Communicator for Rhapsody Project, an open source project to bring the open source Netscape browser (now Mozilla) to the Rhapsody Operating System (now Mac OS X). The project team included volunteers from Netscape Communications and Apple, along with independent programmers.


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