Manish Punjabi is responsible for marketing StarOffice and OpenOffice.org products, and speaks frequently at trade shows and industry conferences on network computing trends.
Prior to his current role, Manish was responsible for marketing Sun's Network Identity, Communication and Portal Server products to key industry verticals and OEM markets. Before joining Sun Microsystems, Manish launched a venture capital backed venture, Quamba. Quamba delivered remote managed testing and monitoring services to high-traffic Web sites. Earlier work experience includes various software development positions encompassing the design and implementation of X-window applications in the Unix environment.
“You get what you pay for.” It’s an adage we all know, understand, and
probably agree with. But is it true for computer software?
Those of us in the tech industry would say no, as our experience with Linux
has informed us to the possibilities of open source software. But what about
the broader consumer market? Until recently, open source software has been
more associated with “freeware,” “shareware,” and other similar
applications. Compared with their commercial counterparts, they have
generally been inferior in quality. Until now.
OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox and others have been leading a wave that is
bound to change broad conceptions about the quality of open source
applications. Bringing the value of community innovation and collaboration,
mass adoption and pricing disruption to consumer software will, in the end,
stand to benefit both consumers and the tech i... (more)
Manish Punjabi is responsible for marketing StarOffice and OpenOffice.org products, and speaks frequently at trade shows and industry conferences on network computing trends. 
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