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August 2006

How I stopped worrying and learned to love Open Source

For the last 16 years I have spent my career working with a team of software developers to shrink-wrap proprietary software code and sell it in every imaginable form. We sold it in retail stores, through direct mail, by telesales, through value-added resellers, in concert with foreign re-publishers in multiple languages worldwide.

We made custom versions and allowed others to sell our proprietary software under their own affiliated label. We bundled it with hardware and other software. We sold it in various forms at price points from $29 to $1500. We even lobbed a truckload of bright packages over to the Home Shopping Channel at one point.

When you spend your career doing something and finally learn to do it well, it is a bit disconcerting when someone changes all of the rules on you. As Alvin Toffler said, in this fast-paced and mutable information age the illiterate are not just those who can’t read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn and relearn. In my North Carolina vernacular that translates as old dogs need to learn new tricks. Or else.

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Q&A with Karta Technologies, Inc.
VP of Army Training and DLETP Program Manager Dennis K. Redmond

3Dsolve recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dennis K. Redmond, Karta Technologies, Inc. Vice President of Army Training and Program Manager of the highly regarded Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Distributed Learning, Education and Training Product (DLETP) program. Karta Technologies, the prime contractor on the DLETP program, has assembled a team of product and service providers to provide high-quality, state-of-the-art distributed elearning for soldiers worldwide. 3Dsolve, Inc., The Simulation Learning Company, is a proud member of the Karta DLETP team.