{"id":5226,"date":"2007-01-30T11:46:26","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T11:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/new-digium-ceo.html"},"modified":"2007-01-30T11:46:26","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T11:46:26","slug":"new-digium-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/new-digium-ceo.html","title":{"rendered":"New Digium CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digium.com\/images\/graphics\/digiumlogo.gif\" \/>Mark Spencer is a competitive weapon at Digium and is well-liked by many in the open source community. It was evident to anyone who knows Mark that he is spread thin as a coder, manager, chief strategy officer and company spokesman. As the company expands the smartest thing the company could do is divide Mark&rsquo;s responsibilities allowing the company continue its rapid growth rate without having to count on Mark for everything.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I just read on Tom Keating&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/asterisk\/digiums-mark-spencer-replaced-by-adtrans-danny-windham.asp\"><font color=\"#800080\">blog<\/font><\/a> (he heard it from <a href=\"http:\/\/saunderslog.com\/2007\/01\/30\/adtrans-danny-windham-to-replace-mark-spencer-as-digium-ceo\/\"><font color=\"#800080\">Alec Saunders<\/font><\/a>) that Mark will become Chairman and CTO and Danny J. Windham, President, Chief Operating Officer and director of ADTRAN will become the new CEO of Digium.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">There is a synergistic relationship between ADTRAN and Digium which you can learn about on Tom&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/asterisk\/digiums-mark-spencer-replaced-by-adtrans-danny-windham.asp\"><font color=\"#800080\">blog<\/font><\/a>. I believe this a great moved for the company and for the open source community as a whole.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Spencer is a competitive weapon at Digium and is well-liked by many in the open source community. It was evident to anyone who knows Mark that he is spread thin as a coder, manager, chief strategy officer and company spokesman. As the company expands the smartest thing the company could do is divide Mark&rsquo;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,199,197,198,189,211,118,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}