Matt Asay
Matt Asay is Head of Developer Ecosystem at Adobe at Adobe. With more than a decade in open source, Asay has served as VP of community at MongoDB; VP of business development at mobile HTML5 startup Strobe (now part of Facebook); chief operating officer at Canonical, the Ubuntu Linux company; GM, Americas and VP of business development at Alfresco; and part of the team that helped put Novell on its open source track. Asay is an emeritus board member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and earned his juris doctorate at Stanford, where he focused on open source and other IP licensing issues, and his MA from the University of Kent at Canterbury and his BA from Brigham Young University. Asay was one of InfoWorld's first bloggers.
Open source’s existential dilemma: the meaning of ‘free'
Developers once were quick to distinguish open source as “free as in freedom, not free as in beer.” Today, as GitHub shows, they demand the beer but are nonchalant about the freedom
Oracle’s and IBM’s IaaS cloud strategy: Talk big, invest little
They’re both woefully behind AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, but you wouldn’t know it from their Scrooge-like investments in their cloud platforms
The Kubernetes ‘fork’: Open source purists miss the point
Is Red Hat’s OpenShift a fork of Kubernetes? No, but it still shouldn’t matter if it were
Making Kubernetes work for the average engineer—via PaaS
Despite being the hottest thing since, well, Docker, Kubernetes remains a dark art for most mainstream enterprises
The era of the cloud database has finally begun
Enterprises are waking up to discover that their database needs have changed dramatically—and that the old-school RDBMS is no longer the best tool
How AWS will own you through serverless computing
Billions of dollars invested in servers and software for serverless computing have given AWS 70 percent of the market—and the platform on which enterprise applications run
These new BI tools bridge the gap between analytics and modern applications
Emerging BI tools let developers be developers, without having to slow down to bother with the data silos they leave in their wake
Database decisions: AWS has changed the game for IT
Enterprises are figuring out that they likely need different database engines to power different parts of their applications. AWS has figured that out, too
Open source isn’t the community you think it is
The irony is that what makes open source work—and differ from commercial software—is that only a few developers do the major work on any project
Skip containers and do serverless computing instead
Container technologies like Docker are very powerful, but require talent you can’t get. Serverless computing provides the same benefits—with talent you can actually get
