High Five: Meet Chris Stone, CEO Of StreamServeHigh Five: Meet Chris Stone, CEO Of StreamServe

Photograph by Jason Grow

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LIKE A ROCK
"When I was in high school, Aerosmith was not what you know today," Stone says of his early stint with the venerable rockers. "We played high school proms. I was into it, I probably just wasn't very good."

2

GOOD PLANS, GOOD DEEDS
"I get a kick out of helping small charities because I know exactly where the money's going. Like in my business viewpoint, I like to know exactly where the strategy makes sense."

3

SKIING WITH A TWIST
Stone's hobby, heliskiing, involves reaching out-of-the-way slopes by helicopter, not ski lift. The appeal? "You're skiing where about the only thing in front of you is a moose or a mule deer. You're skiing down something that may have never been skied before."

4

GROWING PAINS
"I still have high hopes Novell will make it," he says. "They can be a leader in the Linux marketplace, but they have to get out of other things they're doing. The biggest thing is, what do they want to do when they grow up?" As for the deal between Microsoft and Novell to work on Windows-Linux integration, Stone says, "It's just a sellout."

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ALL IN THE CONTEXT
Web 2.0 only solves "half of the problem. Whether it's a mashup, anything on demand, or community content, the context of the information is still missing. The first phase is create the content, and the second phase is put it in context. Maybe you call it Web 3.0."