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Dirk Hondel is an active participant of community and software developer for Linux and software open source since the beginning of the 1990th years. Hondel is among the first developers of a core Linux, behind his shoulders tens of projects in the field of Open Source.
1995-2001: Work in SUSE
In 1995 Dirk Hondel joined the Linux distribution kits SUSE developer. Till 2001 he held a position of the technical director in this company.
2001-2016: Work in Intel
In October, 2001 Dirk Hondel became in Intel the chief technical specialist on projects in the field of Linux and Open Source.
2016: Work in VMware
At the end of June, 2016 in VMware the main thing position according to the open source software (Open Source) for the first time appeared. It was occupied by the person with extensive work experience in this market.
According to the message of VMware, Dirk Hondel became the vice president and the executive director for the products Open Source. He will direct work and the strategy of the company in the field of freely extended software, interaction with the relevant communities and uses of the Open Source components for acceleration of software development.
 | As VMware expands the ecosystem from traditional projects for data centers towards such areas as software-defined networks, cloud and mobile computing, we release more and more new products within the open source software — the executive vice president and the technical director of VMware Ray of O 'Ray O'Farrell says. — Dirk introduces the new level of the management, the advanced practice and creativity to help us to make a contribution to Open Source and to develop projects. |  |
As notes the CRN edition, the VMware company was criticized for low activity in comparison with competitors regarding work with software open source. At the same time the company develops several such projects, including a number of the container technologies available according to the licenses Open Source, through GitHub service.[1]
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