Bendoo Information

BENDOO is managed by Bert Hiddink (1962) and Els Verberne (1963), both graduated at the Wageningen University, the Netherlands. They worked as agronomists in Burkina Faso and Costa Rica. In Costa Rica Bert Hiddink has co-founded the GALILEO Foundation (Costa Rica, Central America), and is still an active member of the GALILEO Foundation Board. In 2002 they came back to the Netherlands and started with their company BENDOO. Being part of the open source community for years, they have learned that the rapid evolutionary process regards open source products results in better software than the traditional closed model, in which only a very few programmers can see the source and everybody else must blindly use an opaque block of bits. The internet is full of open-source software in heavy commercial use. You might say, without open source, there would be no Internet. Open source software is an idea whose time has finally come. For twenty years it has been building momentum in the technical cultures that built the Internet and the World Wide Web. Now it's breaking out into the commercial world, and that's changing all the rules.