Brian
Behlendorf founded CollabNet, with O'Reilly
& Associates, in July 1999. The company provides
tools and services based on open source methods. Before
launching CollabNet, Behlendorf was co-founder and CTO of
Organic Online, a
Web design and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco.
During his five years at Organic, Behlendorf helped create
Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500 companies.
During that time, he co-founded and contributed heavily
to the Apache Web
Server Project, co-founded and supported the VRML (Virtual
Reality Modeling Language) effort, and assisted several
IETF working groups,
particularly the HTTP standardization effort. Before starting
Organic, Behlendorf was the first Chief Engineer at Wired
Magazine and later HotWired,
one of the first large-scale publishing Web sites.
Brian is currently a Director of the Mozilla Foundation and a retired Director and President of the Apache Software Foundation.