户外旅游

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing yourself! you can be tough!  On one hand, here is the celebrated hacker—as in programming whiz, not virtual trespasser—wearing a T-shirt, looking boyish and rail-thin, and resembling an impoverished graduate student who has been living on coffee. But here also is the vice president of product technology for staid software giant Novell, entirely at ease as he takes command of a plush corporate conference room inCambridge, MA, with a view of the Charles River and the Boston skyline. It’s a dissonance, however, that de Icaza is quick to wave away. “There are a lot of motivations in the open-source community, like the freedom to choose software platforms and the chance to innovate,” A programming firebrand, de Icaza has rocketed instature in just a few years from an unknown student at a MexicoCity university to one of the leaders of the increasingly successful challenge to Microsoft’s hegemonic grip on computing.Reconciling Ximian’s and Novell’s very different cultures,meanwhile, wouldn’t be a slam dunk. “To integrate the companies,we had to let go of our culture of independence,” says deIcaza. “We didn’t want to be considered a small research facilityin Novell. If Ximian had a cool-hacker reputation, then our jobwas to help make Novell cool.”Matt Asay, Novell’s Linux businessoffice director, concedes that it took Novell employees awhile to get used to “this Bohemian invader,” as he calls de Icaza.“People were uncomfortable at first,” he says. “But you walkaround now, and the pendulum has swung the other direction.People are giddy with the prospects for open source. I would say that the greatest benefit that Novell got from Ximian was nottheir technology; it was their DNA.”