TY - JOUR T1 - Q&A. What lessons can "green" computing learn from open source? JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Venkat Mangudi AB - What lessons can "green" computing learn from open source? PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/312 IS - December 2009 U1 - Venkat Mangudi Consulting Venkat Mangudi is an Open Source Evangelist and Strategy Consultant based in Bangalore, India. He specializes in optimizing the technology portfolios of small and medium businesses. He has over 17 years of experience worldwide in selling, planning, deploying and managing enterprise applications across India, South Korea, Germany, Singapore and the United States. He is a senior technologist who thrives on challenge and draws upon strong technical and cross functional skills to achieve key business needs and resolve tactical pains. He was working as a Portfolio/Program Manager with the world's largest enterprise software company, Oracle, till he returned to India. He now actively manages his consulting firm called Venkat Mangudi Consulting. In less than 30 months, he and his team have assisted over a dozen clients to evaluate, pilot and implement open source enterprise applications for Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Project Management and Integrated Library Management system. He expresses his thoughts in Business Gyan as well as BenefIT and i.t. Magazine. He is frequently invited to speak on open source and related strategies at conferences and seminars. He is a certified Project Management Professional. He loves wine, golf and squash. ER -