Eliza Strickland from recently wrote an article about Open Ephys for IEEE Spectrum. It includes quotations from Josh and Jakob, the Open Ephys co-founders, as well as Reid Harrison of Intan Technologies, Keith Stengel of Neuralynx, and Andy Gotshalk of Blackrock Microsystems.
Here's one choice excerpt, courtesy of Reid:
"The existing tools are like the PCs and the Macs of the neuroscience world, but now we also have this Linux."