Who wants to help found the next Red Hat?

So, who among my Tri-JUG friends wants to help start the next great
Open Source software company? "The next Red Hat" if you will?

Specifically, I think there's a great opportunity for a new F/OSS
based company that focuses "up the stack" a little from where Red Hat
is, specifically
touching on areas like information retrieval, knowledge management,
business intelligence, etc.  Yes, there are some players touching on
one or
more of those spaces already, but I believe nobody has really got the
"whole product" concept nailed yet, and nobody is offering a truly
comprehensive, well-integrated suite of F/OSS products that can help
an organization fulfill the "Digital Nervous System" vision.

But a lot of the parts and pieces needed to build that already exist,
as Open Source projects, and now somebody needs to assemble
those bits, apply a Red Hat like subscription model, and make a pile
of money.  Look around just the ASF and notice the technologies
available from the Lucene, Solr, Hadoop, Mahout, UIMA, OODT, Stanbol,
Wave, Rave, Shindig, OpenNLP, and Jena projects...

I'm already deep into building a righteous information retrieval /
collaboration system that I believe can be the first product for the
next great F/OSS company.  ZDNet research suggests that over the next
5 years, over half of all software spending could be
on F/OSS solutions.[1]  The time to strike is now.

I'm looking for one or two co-founders for this startup... Ping me if
you're interested... This deal won't be available forever!


[1]: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/survey-56-expect-that-more-than-half-of-all-software-spend-over-next-5-years-will-be-open-source/8917



Phil R.