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Matt Asay

VP, Business Development, Alfresco

The Tortoise and the Hare
42 minutes, 19.4mb, recorded 2008-10-13
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Matt Asay

 Former Technometria host Matt Asay returns to discuss his current projects.  He reviews the state of open source software and the continuing issue of making it economically viable.  The group talks about software development and Matt makes a case for considering Microsoft a software underdog.

They also talk about the issues related to DNS poisoning and assess a web tool that will check a DNS server for vulnerabilities.


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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.

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This free podcast is from our Technometria with Phil Windley series.

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  • Post-production audio engineer: Paul Figgiani
  • Website editor: Joel W Tscherne
  • Series producer: Joel W Tscherne