Monday, May 22, 2006
Funambol named a Red Herring 100 company
Pretty cool news today. We have been named one of the top "100 Private North American Firms Driving the Future of Technology" by Red Herring. Looking at the list, I am very glad to be in with Sling Media, Zimbra, Jajah and Mozilla. Red Herring claims they picked Google and eBay in the past and they are good at this: let's hope they are right :-)One thing I noticed on the list: there is a pretty good amount of companies building solution around open source. Together wth Funambol, there is Zimbra, Pentaho, EnterpriseDB, Mozilla, BlackDuck, Collabnet. Probably even more that I never heard about. Or at least, I would guess that 99 out of 100 are using open source software. I should put a prize up for the person who finds the one not using open source...
Posted by Fabrizio Capobianco at 11:27
7 Comments:
I would like to figure out how you can feel while living such a success in a true modern and ethic way (open source product) and coming from such a "black hole" like Pavia, where I live and try to survive. What else?
Comment Posted at 12:04
Fabrizio said...
Pavia is a great place to live and work. A good chunk of our development team is there. A piece of my family is there. It is not a "black hole"... With Funambol, Marvell, ST Microeletronics creating R&D centers there, it has the opportunity to be at the center of the future in technology. It would just need the weather we have here in Silicon Valley to be perfect :-)
Comment Posted at 12:18
Fabrizio, it' a matter of points of view. If you were so lucky to do the right choices during the right moments, then you may permit to consider Pavia like a great place to live. But let us switch our lives, you here and me there, and I wonder how long will you take to change you mind.
Comment Posted at 22:31
Fabrizio said...
Dear anonymous,
I lived in Pavia for 10 years. Then I moved to Silicon Valley. Then back to Pavia for a year, where my daughter was born. Then I moved back once again to Silicon Valley. I have the feeling I might come back again, one day. Pavia is a great place to live, though it would be better without mosquitoes...
Comment Posted at 08:19
rolloelvetico said...
As another "Pavia-boy", living now abroad, lost in translation between mountains and lakes, I'd like to add my comment: Pavia can be "black", making people even "darker", but think about all nice things you have around (and we don't), like food, wine (c'mon Fabrizio you can't compare a wine from the Sonoma Valley with a good Bonarda!) ... And a final advice: just bring light around yourself and even Pavia will appear "shining" ... think positive!
Comment Posted at 11:35
Rollo, you are right, we are what we decide to be, Fabrizio is the living example. I do not see so many young guys on the economic pages of Corriere della Sera, and let me the pleasure of being a little envious.
Comment Posted at 12:36
rolloelvetico said...
Dear Anonymous,
Better to say "we are what we WANT to be", that's Fabrizio's example (can tell you). Then opportunities, luck and Fate do the the rest (10% on the pie-chart). And, well, try to change "envy" in "example"... can be useful and make the "hole" brighter. And, Fabrizio, stop smiling like that and come down to the earth, soon you'll start flying if we go on with compliments ;-).
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