Matt Asay
Contributor
Matt Asay is a Principal at Amazon Web Services. Formerly, Asay was Head of Developer Ecosystem for Adobe. Prior to Adobe, Asay held a range of roles at open source companies: VP of business development, marketing, and community at MongoDB; 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, the Ubuntu Linux company; 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.
How open source changed everything — again
The biggest open source innovations of the decade, from Git and Docker to data science and the cloud
Magical Magento figures out how to make and take
Drawing half of contributed code from third parties, Magento seems to have cracked the code for open source success
The real number of open source developers
Are there really more than 40 million software developers on GitHub? Not even close
Why the Rust language is on the rise
Rust may not be easy to learn, but developers love the speed, the tools, the ‘guard rails,‘ and the community
NoSQL will dominate new stack spending
Relational databases may keep old stack workloads, but Morgan Stanley research suggests NoSQL databases will own the next generation of apps
Should open source licenses fight evil?
New open source licenses attempt to legislate what we can and cannot do with software. Problem is, that’s not open
AI gets real (sort of) in the enterprise
Turns out AI isn’t magic pixie dust to sprinkle over legacy processes and legacy tech, but a fundamental rethinking of how to do business
Is Java the next COBOL?
60 years later, billions of lines of COBOL live on. Could Java, SQL, or Python last as long?
Should open source software advertise?
Funding open source has never been more important. It’s also never been harder
VMware vSphere goes Kubernetes native
A re-architecture of vSphere with a Kubernetes control plane, Project Pacific looks like Kubernetes to developers and vSphere to admins
HPE plus MapR: Too much Hadoop, not enough cloud
MapR gives HPE superior big data analytics technology and expertise, but not what HPE needs most
Why 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
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