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VP Business Development, Alfresco
Matt Asay has been involved with open source since 1998, and is one of the industry's leading open source business strategists. Asay currently manages sales and business development activities in the Americas for Alfresco, the open source leader in Enterprise Content Management. Prior to Alfresco, Asay co-founded Novell's Linux Business Office in 2002 and was an early agitator and architect for the company's shift to open source. In 2003 Asay founded the Open Source Business Conference, the industry's premier open source strategy event, and has served as an Entreprenuer-in-Residence for Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, focusing on open source investment opportunities. Before Novell, Asay was General Manager at Lineo, an embedded Linux software startup, where he ran Lineo's Residential Gateway business. Asay earned his Juris Doctorate degree at Stanford Law School, spending two of his three years studying software licensing and innovation, and specifically the GNU General Public License, under Professor Larry Lessig. He also holds Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK) and Brigham Young University, respectively.
September 28, 2006
Knowledge Management / strategy
At Gartner’s Application Development Summit, Gartner analysts Dale Veccio and Matt Hoyle opined on the present and future of enterprise application development, as reported by DevSource. Their keynote focused on four themes: the new application development lifecycle (with an emphasis on delivering applications better and faster - imagine that!), project and portfolio management...
September 28, 2006
Knowledge Management / uncategorized
Zack Urlocker is at the Gartner Open Source Summit this week, and has been hearing some good things about open source databases. Open source databases (Sleepycat, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) have been around for a long time, but the analysts didn’t give them much credit because even though everyone was using them, few were paying...
August 9, 2006
Knowledge Management / venture capital
I actually thought Digium would never take venture funding. The company doesn’t need it ($10M+ in sales and profitable), but apparently David Skok of Matrix Partners gave Mark Spencer (founder and CEO of Digium) an offer he couldn’t refuse:Make that $13.8 million of them.Matrix is one of my very favorite venture firms: great...
August 3, 2006
government / Knowledge Management
Gary Edwards (Open Document Foundation) and I were talking yesterday, and he mentioned the NASCIO (National Association of State CIOs) Conference coming up. I checked out last year’s conference and found an interesting set of slides from an open source session they held. From the slides, some useful data on why state governments...
July 28, 2006
Knowledge Management / strategy
Earlier this week I delivered a presentation at OSCON 2006 entitled “Making Sales While Making Friends: Lessons Learned from Open Source Businesses.” I’ve been involved with commercial open source since 1998, and have learned a lot over the years (including how to fail spectacularly and slightly more gracefully). I’m in the middle of...
July 18, 2006
government / Knowledge Management
Computer Business Review has an interesting review of the United States Department of Defense report “Open Technology Development“. [PDF] If you haven’t read it, you need to take a look. It is one of the most clear-sighted documents on open source that I’ve yet read, and should banish CIO doubts as to the...
June 20, 2006
Knowledge Management / strategy
I was on a customer call with Kevin Cochrane today and a customer prospect. The prospect wanted to know how big Alfresco’s development staff is, which we were happy to tell him (open source companies tend not to keep silly secrets): 15. (Not everyone is on the site, for some reason, both...