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Moshe Bar è un tecnologo, autore, investitore, imprenditore e filantropo.
Cittadino di Israele e US, è co-fondatore di Qumranet. Qumranet è stata venduta a Red Hat nel 2008 per 107 milioni US$. In precedenza ha fondato l’azienda che ha creato il software Xen, XenSource, venduta a Citrix nel 2007 per 500 milioni US$. Prima aveva fondato Qlusters Inc. ed era stato, fondatore, principale sviluppatore e project manager di openMosix. Inoltre, opera spesso come angel investor in start-up high-tech come Sullego, Hyper9 e altre. E’ stato anche coinvolto in Qlayer, venduta a Sun Microsystems nel Gennaio 2009.
Autore di diversi libri su Linux, file systems e sviluppo open source, è stato senior editor presso Byte Magazine per più di otto anni.
E’ stato autore di diversi paper accademici su high-performance computing, ha insegnato all’Università di Tel Aviv ed è spesso invitato in qualità di speaker su argomenti quali la virtualizzazione, l’enterprise software, Linux ed il free software.
Prima dell’ingresso nel business high-tech è stato career officer nelle Forze di Difesa Israeliane.
Ora si dedica alla filantropia, al Sionismo ed alle questioni legate all’ambiente.

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Moshe Bar is a technologist, author, investor and entrepreneur and philantropist.
An Israeli and US citizen, he is a co-founder of Qumranet. Qumranet was sold to Red Hat in 2008 for US$ 107 million.
He previously founded the company behind the Xen software, XenSource, which was sold to Citrix for US$ 500 million in 2007. Before that he founded Qlusters Inc, and was the founder, main developer and project manager of openMosix. Furthermore, he frequently acts as an angel investor in high-tech start-up companies such as Sullego, Hyper9, and others. He was also involved in Qlayer, sold to Sun Microsystems in January 2009.
The author of several books on Linux, file systems and open source development, he was also a senior editor at Byte Magazine for over eight years.
He has authored several academic papers on high-performance computing and taught at Tel Aviv University, and is a frequent speaker on subjects such as virtualization, enterprise software, Linux, and free software.
Before entering the high-tech business, he was a career officer in the Israel Defense Forces. He focuses now on philanthropy, Zionism and environmental issues.

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