Cygnus
While the GNU product was the bulk of our sales and engineering efforts, we sold contracts for other technology, such as Kerberos network security software , Emacs, and even our bug tracking and test framework software which was still under development at that time. We were about to learn first-hand what Geoffrey Moore meant in his book Crossing the Chasm. I had always sold Open Source the way a hacker would sell it: focusing mainly on the technical merits. The GNU compiler already supported dozens of host environments and over a dozen target architectures I had written six of the ports myself , making it one of the most widely ported compilers of its time. In , we hired a young business student, recently laid off from Applied Materials, who wanted to learn how to sell software. Highlight taxa in a checklist shown in red none Avibase taxonomic concepts current v.? As can be seen from the chart above, while our growth rate remained impressive, it slowed as we grew.
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