Matt Asay
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Matt Asay is Head of Developer Ecosystem for Adobe, where previously he was vice president of mobile strategy. Prior to Adobe, Asay held a range of roles at open source companies: VP of business development, marketing and community at MongoDB, a leading big data database company; VP of business development at real-time analytics company Nodeable (acquired by Appcelerator); VP of business development and interim CEO at mobile HTML5 start-up Strobe (acquired by Facebook); COO at Canonical, a leading Linux and cloud vendor; and head of the Americas at Alfresco, a content management startup. Asay is an emeritus board member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and holds a J.D. from Stanford, where he focused on open source and other IP licensing issues. Asay writes regular columns for The Register, TechRepublic, and InfoWorld.
Open source has never been stronger
With cloud companies open-sourcing their innovations, and enterprises increasing participation, open source sustainability is at an all-time high
Your multicloud strategy is all wrong
Multicloud is supposed to lower costs and increase agility and innovation, but the opposite is true
Public cloud winners take most
CIOs plan big increases in cloud spending in the coming year, with AWS and Azure first in line
Will complexity kill Kubernetes?
Kubernetes wouldn’t be the first huge open source project to collapse under its own weight, but its champions say it’s different
Hadoop runs out of gas
As big data customers flee complexity and embrace the cloud, the Hadoop vendors are sputtering
VMware gets its Kubernetes game on
After years in the background, VMware has emerged as a major contributor to the Kubernetes open source project
For open source vs. proprietary, AWS might have it both ways
If it’s careful to do its own open source too, AWS could mine Google’s open source investments for a long time
Oracle’s and IBM’s hybrid cloud defense may not hold
There's a lot of money on-premises, which keeps IBM and Oracle making money. But AWS, Microsoft, and even Google are targeting on-premises—with IT buy-in
Why Oracle is happy to lose to AWS and MongoDB
Open source and cloud developers lead the charge away from Oracle’s database, but they're not where Oracle makes its money
Programming languages are now driven by corporations: Should we be worried?
Today, seemingly the only way a new programming language hits the big time is with the generous backing of a megacorp
Open source licenses may not matter so much any more
MongoDB's efforts to get OSI endorsement a more business-friendly SSPL have failed. MongoDB is proceeding anyhow, reflecting a possibly pivotal moment
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