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Gopinath Ganapathy

Essentia

Gopi Ganapathy is Founder, President & CEO of Essentia, a product and services company focused on open source platforms, online customer experience and software as a service. He also serves as a partner in MNC Group, a diversified investment and technology incubation firm. A successful repeat entrepreneur and seasoned executive, he was a founder of Enlite Networks serving as it’s President and CEO from inception in 1999 until it’s acquisition by CollabNet in 2003. At CollabNet, Gopi served as the President/CEO of CollabNet India and as its Vice President of Engineering leading early deployments of many well known open source projects like Open Office, Java and Subversion on distributed software development environments. He has held executive positions in marketing, services and engineering since the early 90s in well known silicon valley companies including Cadence Design Systems [CDN], SVR and AMD. Gopi has a Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin with numerous patents and publications.

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2:35pm Thursday, 07/24/2008

Delivering a Next-Generation Community Platform

Products & Services
Location: E141

Nick Halsey (Jaspersoft), Gopinath Ganapathy (Essentia), Tim Cloonan (Jaspersoft) Moderated by: Nick Halsey

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Open source communities are no longer focused on just infrastructure development, but involve application-focused development, user and business communities. Today open source community tools must support higher levels of business and technical collaboration. We unveil a platform that meets these challenges: The first next-generation environment for commercial open source communities. Read more.