Douglas Bone brings a decade of experience in the Linux server business to California Digital. He co-founded VA Linux Systems (NASDAQ: LNUX) in 1994, the world's first Linux server company. Bone served in a variety of sales, marketing, and operations management roles during that company's meteoric rise and IPO.

Bone brings extensive customer, market, and Linux knowledge to California Digital, particularly in the areas of enterprise Linux migration and technical computing. His team has garnered major Linux contracts in the financial services, bioinformatics, Internet infrastructure, and government research verticals. He is an expert on understanding how Linux-based technology can supplant proprietary Unix-based solutions within Fortune 500 companies.

Bone attended Stanford University where he got his Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, and spent the next five years pursuing a doctoral degree before leaving to work full time on VA Linux.

Bone is a recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation for higher studies. He earned his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University and has worked for NCR and DuPont Electronics.

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