Moving into a new year, the privately owned and funded CFEngine company has changed its board to include some power members of the Free and Open Software community. “The time has come to change the style of our board work, as we move into a different phase of growth,” says CEO Thomas Ryd.
Joining the board is Open Source superstar Haavard Nord, former co-founder and CEO of Trolltech, the Norwegian company behind the Qt library, and the basis for KDE. Trolltech (which translates roughly into “technology magic”) was recently acquired by Nokia as a strategic part of their software development.
Also joining the team is Christen Krogh, Chief Development Officer at Opera Software, who has guided the development of one of the most innovative web browsers in the industry, dominating the games console and handheld market.
Both of these complement the founder Mark Burgess’s mindset nicely. “We found a good chemistry immediately and there is a lot of excitement in the company and the board about the potential of a company that already has the largest global footprint of any Open Source datacenter automation system.”
