Joshua Ferraro
Encyclopedia
Joshua Ferraro is an American entrepreneur
and computer scientist
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Ferraro was the founding CEO
of LibLime
and grew the company to profitability with over 600 customers under 140 contracts. Under his leadership, LibLime grew rapidly into the largest support organization for the Koha open-source integrated library system
(ILS), acquiring key Koha assets including the US trademark, copyrights to some Koha source code, and the Koha.org domain. He was chief architect for ‡biblios.net, the company's free cataloging service and the world's largest database of openly licensed library records. He also successfully navigated the company through a major business process change with the launch of LibLime Enterprise Koha (LLEK), an enterprise edition of Koha distributed as a cloud computing software as a service solution. LibLime sold to PTFS, Inc. in March, 2010.
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
and computer scientist
Computer scientist
A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....
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Ferraro was the founding CEO
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
of LibLime
Liblime
LibLime is a commercial entity providing implementation and development services around the open source Integrated library system Koha.LibLime was founded in 2005, as part of Metavore Inc. and purchased by Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc...
and grew the company to profitability with over 600 customers under 140 contracts. Under his leadership, LibLime grew rapidly into the largest support organization for the Koha open-source integrated library system
Integrated library system
An integrated library system , also known as a library management system ,is an enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed....
(ILS), acquiring key Koha assets including the US trademark, copyrights to some Koha source code, and the Koha.org domain. He was chief architect for ‡biblios.net, the company's free cataloging service and the world's largest database of openly licensed library records. He also successfully navigated the company through a major business process change with the launch of LibLime Enterprise Koha (LLEK), an enterprise edition of Koha distributed as a cloud computing software as a service solution. LibLime sold to PTFS, Inc. in March, 2010.
External links
- Joshua Ferraro's Homepage which appears to be a dead link as of at least 16 September 2010