Matt Asay’s Top Priorities and Goals
At the beginning of February Matt Asay moved from Alfresco to Canonical, and Matt’s blog activity already reflects his career change and I asked Matt about his top priorities in the new role. (More …)
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Roberto has over 30 years experience in the IT field, and has spent the last 15 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he has served on advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. After serving as Senior Director of Business Development at SourceForge for over 4 years, in 2016 he started a new company called Business Follows, whose mission is to is to help developers, companies and organizations to make Open Source development a key part of their business strategies.
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Don 8:47 pm on March 1, 2010 Permalink
Matt, many thanks for your post.
There is no mention here of the messages that were once dear to Canonical’s heart, freedom, free software. Is this vision now to be sacrificed to the alter of enterprise computing?
A really interesting question to answer would be, how does Canonical propose to bring freedom to the cloud?
Some clarity around these topics would be great.
Joel West 10:54 pm on March 2, 2010 Permalink
Don,
Matt answers your question: it’s a business, that has lots of potential for growth and profit for its employees and owners. If Canonical increases its market share and installed base, that will increase the viability of Linux as a platform — including the supply of applications and the willingness of firms to consider it as a desktop alternative. But in the end, Jane and Matt’s job is to make a buck.
Joel