Mountain View Data . A company called Mountain View Data announced its existence this week. The first thing that catches the attention with this company is that its principals are Cliff Miller and Iris Miller, the founders of TurboLinux, along with Peter Braam, the designer behind the Coda and Intermezzo filesystems. The Millers, of course, have been easing out of their roles in TurboLinux for a while. So they are off to Mountain View, which gives them a chance to create another successful open source company.
Mountain View intends to provide services around data storage needs.
The software is, after all, open source. There is a lot of talk about how corporations have increasing needs for data storage, and increasing trends toward outsourcing. Through the use of this software and commodity hardware, the company expects to price its offerings far below those of its competitors. It's an ambitious plan, but the company may just have the right people to pull it off. LynuxWorks files for an IPO .