CEO of Corra Technology, Ron Bongo

Ron Bongo received his bachelor degree in Economics from Gettysburg College and began his career as Vice President for two management consulting firms, implementing cost reduction strategies for companies such as Toys R Us, Consolidated Edison and Honeywell.

After two decades of experience in the fields of technology, finance and management consulting, Ron Bongo is the leading executive in the open source software industry. Ron Bongo is a strong believer that the new formal partner program with Linux open-source will help to increase substantial growth in 2010 for his company.

The OSA (Open Solutions Alliance) is a thriving organization dedicated to the promotion of vendor interoperability and adoption of comprehensive open solutions. Recently the economic benefits of open source solutions was realized when the $20,000 cost of JasperSoft compared to the traditional business intelligence software license of more than $100,000. In speaking about OSA, Ron Bongo stated "In our work with more than 70 global companies, we have seen first hand the growing need for interoperability between applications in order for the true benefits of open source to be realized."