Yahoo Exec Puts Career On Automattic

Toni Schneider, lately the man behind Yahoo's Developer Network, will leave the cozy confines of Sunnyvale for the dual joys of heading a startup and partnering in a venture capital firm. The open source movement provided an opportunity to build a service industry around a freely available product. Firms like Red Hat offered handholding to enterprises who wanted to have someone to yell at should an open source product misbehave. Automattic, offers professional services related to his projects. Om Malik Akismet spam protection service, and hinted on his blog that he may do for Yahoo what Doug Edwards is doing for Google with his here. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web David Utter is a staff writer for murdok covering technology and business.