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Friedman, Nat

 Boston    Friedman, Nat    MA    The Enterprise Linux Desktop: Addressing Corporate Needs    USA   Ximian, Inc.  
The Enterprise Linux Desktop: Addressing Corporate Needs

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Nat Friedman, Co-Founder and Vice-President of Product Development A long-time open source developer, Nat Friedman is a driving force behind Ximian's product strategy. Nat raised $15 million of venture capital for Ximian in January 2001. Prior to Ximian, he was with Microsoft Corporation, where he contributed to the IIS Web server project. Nat is a developer of the GNOME Foundation's proposal and charter and has made significant contributions to the development of the Bonobo object model, the GNOME architecture for creating reusable software components and compound documents. Both a developer and an entrepreneur since childhood, Nat's dynamic personality has made him a natural leader and an important spokesperson for the Free Software movement. Nat earned bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and in Computer Science at MIT.