Why Kim Polese believes in open source
News But fate is a fickle friend, and Kim Polese then embarked on a celebrity roller-coaster ride that took her from being the Web's "it girl" to a dot-bomb trivia answer in the wink of an eye. And just like during the early days of the Web, Polese...
[November 3, 2004, 13:08]
SpikeSource stacks up open source lineup
News SpikeSource, a start-up headed by computing industry veteran Kim Polese, has revealed more details of its plan to tap into the growing popularity of open source software at corporations. In an interview with ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com...
[January 5, 2005, 7:40]
Netscape, Marimba plan tighter links
News Netscape will resell Marimba's Castanet Transmitter server software, said Marimba CEO and president Kim Polese, in a keynote address. In addition to expanding distribution channels, Marimba, of Palo Alto, Calif.is also working to expand its...
[July 25, 1997, 9:24]
SpikeSource expands open source line
News The company signed on 12 more VARs, or "solution providers", in the first quarter of this year, bringing the total signed up to almost 50, according to chief executive Kim Polese. VARs and resellers love open source because it allows them to...
[August 11, 2006, 10:40]
BMC to buy Marimba
News The Mountain View, Calif.based company, founded by former Sun Microsystems executive Kim Polese, sells software for automatically sending software patches and updates to computers over corporate networks and mobile devices.
[April 29, 2004, 16:55]
Is open source a bubble ready to burst?
News That pull toward open source is fuelled in large part by corporate customers, said Kim Polese, chief executive. If that's the case, that means there's a huge demand for open source software and business models," Polese said.
[November 7, 2005, 14:30]
The Day Ahead: Dot-coms grow up, chief execs step out
News Marimba cofounder Kim Polese took a page out of the Walsh playbook. In other words, Polese made herself chief strategy officer. Then, they had Wall Street believing profits were overrated as long as you could grow.
[July 31, 2000, 12:35]
Insider Dealings: All The Gossip That's Fit To Read
News Well, if you were dining at a top London hotel last Wednesday you might have seen him talking shop with Marimba boss Kim Polese. Never one to hide his light under a proverbial, Sethi has been a fierce and outspoken critic of Big Green.
[September 27, 1997, 8:00]
OpenLogic aims to keep open source honest
News A high-profile entrant into his market last year was SpikeSource, a company founded by Kim Polese, previously chief executive of dot-com darling Marimba. When software is open source, and perhaps free, IT managers may not feel under too much...
[June 26, 2006, 13:15]
Open source reshaping the services market
News More and more, the emphasis is going from the bits to the services wrapped around those bits," said Kim Polese, an industry veteran who helped develop the Java programming language and who is now CEO of SpikeSource.
[January 10, 2005, 18:15]
Marimba woos Novadigm customers with free software
News He decries media coverage of Marimba which focuses on its dot-com past, and on glamorous founder-chief executive Kim Polese, who stood down to handle strategy in 2000. Still remembered as a leader of the Internet/Java hype in 1997 to 1999, Marimba...
[February 12, 2002, 17:03]
'The future is open source'
News Kim Polese, chief executive of SpikeSource, said she believes that every application in a proprietary technology environment will become an open source tool in the coming years. Asked by Lane whether she thinks companies will pay for a licence to...
[July 22, 2005, 8:50]
Polese launches open-source software services firm
News Kim Polese, a former Sun Microsystems executive who was the original product manager for Java, is now at the helm of SpikeSource, an open-source software services company that launched on Thursday. Polese left Sun in 1996 to found Marimba, a...
[October 11, 2004, 9:10]
Founders at Work review
Reviews You may not remember van Hoff, but you might well remember his company, Marimba, and his fellow Sun escapee Kim Polese, two of the four co-founders who each put in $25,000. The four, particularly Polese, got a lot of press attention at the time for...
[June 19, 2008, 14:59]
The Luncher
News Kim Polese's 'we ain't push' company is shopping around for UK staff. In the old days when men were men, these wealthy companies would feud and call each other names until they were of an azure complexion.
[October 29, 1997, 13:12]
Opening up open source
News Esther Dyson talks to Mitchell Baker and Kim Polese about why open source is 'a condition of human existence'
[April 12, 2005, 10:05]
It's official - Marimba to set up in UK
News Polese also commented on the ongoing litigation with Novadigm: "Our patent attorneys tell us the case is frivolous," she said. Polese described the number of such litigation cases as "amazing", and said about Novadigm: "I wouldn't characterise them...
[October 28, 1997, 16:46]
Microsoft teams up with SpikeSource
News Kim Polese, chief executive of SpikeSource, said: "This company was founded to accelerate the mass-market adoption of business-ready open-source solutions, and this announcement illustrates our commitment to offering users tested and supported...
[July 27, 2007, 16:47]
