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By: Matthias G. Eckermann

January 22, 2010 12:00 am

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Challenges of a Product Manager in the Open Source World – Part Three

In the first two blogs in this series of three we had discussed, how communities influence a product manager's life; and we looked at the concrete example of the Linux Kernel version for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1. And I wondered: What would you have done? You certainly would not have built your […]

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By: Matthias G. Eckermann

January 21, 2010 10:37 am

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Challenges of a Product Manager in the Open Source World – Part Two

When we discussed, how the interaction of customers, partners, and communities influences the product manager's decisions and his ownership of products, I promised to clarify this by sharing a recent example: For more than a decade the standard graphical environment on Linux and other UNIX(tm)-like systems, the X Window System (X11, X.org), did run […]

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