http://braverock.com/brian/

Senior technical architect, quantitative financial analyst, and project delivery leader with broad-based consulting and line management expertise. Over fifteen years experience in design, construction and integration of technically innovative systems in multiple industries including financial services, customer service, insurance, health care, automotive, and manufacturing.

I have been involved with open source software projects for my entire career. I believe that the benefits of using and contributing to open source software for "commodity" features should be clear to any business. If functionality is "general purpose" and does not embody anything truly proprietary or secret, the long term benefits of open-sourcing it should be available to all organizations that need it. This allows companies and individuals to focus their efforts on creating new functionality and "secret sauce" that is truly proprietary and confidential.