The Billion Dollar (Free) Software Opportunity
Time: Aug 28, 12:30 p.m.
No one questions open source's ability to commoditize markets, but can open source also build new markets? In this presentation, Matt Asay will walk through several billion-dollar software businesses already created with open-source software, and will address what Novell, Red Hat, and other open-source software vendors need to do to become the billion-dollar hub to a (trillion-dollar?) open-source ecosystem.
About Matt Asay
Matt Asay (Alfresco)
Matt Asay has been involved with open source since 1998. Asay is currently general manager, Americas, and VP of Business Development for Alfresco, the open source leader in Enterprise Content Collaboration. Prior to Alfresco, Asay was part of Novell's Linux Business Office. In 2003 Asay founded the Open Source Business Conference. Before Novell, Asay was General Manager at Lineo, an embedded Linux software startup, where he ran Lineo's Network & Communications business. Asay earned his Juris Doctorate degree at Stanford Law School, spending two of his three years studying open source software licensing and innovation, under Professor Larry Lessig. He also holds Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Kent and Brigham Young University, respectively. Asay serves on the advisory boards of various open source companies, including MuleSource, Loopfuse, SugarCRM, JasperSoft, , Bungee Labs, and Openbravo.
