Sam Ramji is chief strategy officer of DataStax. A 25-year veteran of the Silicon Valley and Seattle technology scenes, Sam has helped build two multibillion dollar markets (API management at Apigee and enterprise service bus at BEA Systems) and redefined Microsoft's open source and Linux strategy from "extinguish" to "embrace." He is nerdy about open source, platform economics, middleware and cloud computing with emphasis on developer experience and enterprise software.