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Competing with your own channel: Matt Asay has a truly fine piece out today about open source vendors competing with their own channels. What he's talking about are companies that sell support for "community" versions of your product. (I have no idea if John Wingert's sales techniques work, but his picture encapsulates the...; Tags: Matt Asay, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Open Source, Sales, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-07
How evil is China?: Matt Asay has a headline today that's doubtless worth a click -- Microsoft and Novell seek to exonerate Chinese piracy. The news peg is that Microsoft and Novell extended their existing agreement on IP to China. They call it "an incremental investment in their relationship" aimed...; Tags: China, America, Matt Asay, Matt, Intellectual Property, Piracy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-04-21
The battle for the embedded market heats up: Matt Asay has a nifty piece up right now about the embedded Linux market. It's well worth reading. Readers may think, however, that the key to market victory here lies in Taiwan, or maybe even China. I don't think it does. I think it's...; Tags: Matt Asay, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-04-18
Zimbra's Prism client - a great use case for RIAs on the desktop: Matt Asay loves the new Zimbra Desktop client. They're using Prism as the desktop client, the project from Mozilla labs that came out of Mozilla's WebRunner. It's great to see people like Matt get the need for desktop applications. More and more I think people are realizing that they just...; Tags: Desktop Client, Use Case, Zimbra, Rich Internet Application, Web Browser, Matt Asay, Desktops, E-mail, Hardware, Online Communications, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-02-14
Is Trend Micro-Barracuda case a hair on fire moment?: Matt Asay thinks so. He's certain of it in fact. (Picture from Learn-Shiatsu of the UK.) Matt says Trend Micro is making claims for its patent (number 5,623,600 if you're scoring at home) that make open source anti-virals illegal. He may...; Tags: Patent, Open Source, Trend Micro Inc., Barracuda Networks, Matt Asay, Register, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-01-29

Sun's Jonathan Schwartz: CIOs will hunt me down to pay me money: Matt Asay has an interview with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on news.com. Schwartz explains how having millions of downloads of Sun's Solaris and Java translates into bounty for the company and its shareholders.Asay: But how do you translate interest and volume into customers? Downloads are nice, but how do you...; Tags: CIO, Brand, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Matt Asay, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-08-09
How Microsoft helps open source: One of our newest C|Net bloggers, Matt Asay, is a player.That is, he makes his living as vice president for business development at Alfresco Software, an open source content management company.This gives him an insider's perspective I can't match. (I make up for it somehow.) Yesterday, it made Asay my interview...; Tags: Applications, business models, content, Database Management, management, Microsoft, Strategy; Blog posts 2007-06-28
Did open source kill the component business?: For over a decade Ive been hearing the same hype. The way to IT productivity is to build applications out of components. For a time, the building of component models like Microsofts DCOM was one of the computer medias best spectator sports.But has open source simply replaced the component model...; Tags: Matt Asay, open source; Blog posts 2006-09-29

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Mobius Seattle 2008: SE, MWg, and HTC show off their devices: I was very pleased to be invited to the first Mobius event of 2008, that is actually being held here in the Seattle area. Thus, I had no travel to get to Mobius and that may have made the decision to invite me to this event...; Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobile, Mobius, XPERIA, SE, Panel Technology, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Frequent open source miles: Matt Asay's piece on "open source free- riders" got my goat this morning because we're on opposite sides of the market. Matt's a vendor, a high-ranking executive with Alfresco who by his own testimony spends a heavy chunk of his life in hotels and airports. ...; Tags: Matt, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-14
The Obama Party and the Googlization of politics: Barack Obama is the Google of modern American politics. MyBarackObama and Google share strengths and, perhaps, weaknesses. I just described Google's problem with the ASP loophole. By supporting the loophole Google maintains its proprietary advantage but risks losing friends in the open source community....; Tags: Movement, Google Inc., Barack Obama, Stoller, Open Source, Blogging, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Open source as the villain in its own story: Maybe because of JavaOne and Sun's well-known concerns about open source profit the idea of proprietary hooks which make people pay for open source software is big again. After all, if the code is free and visible why should an enterprise customer write a check to its...; Tags: Asset, Open Source, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-06
OpenSolaris released, aimed at storage market: Sun is officially launching OpenSolaris at its Community One developer conference this morning today in San Francisco. A version for x86 machines, 686 MBytes in size, is already available for download from here. Technically only pre-release versions were available before now. The Solaris code...; Tags: OpenSolaris, Storage, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-05
Will market reject Sun's open source vision?: Matt asks today whether open source will save Sun Microsystems. Good question. But it depends on what we mean by open source. (Copies of this lovely poster are for sale at eBay.) And what we mean by saving. As I noted here in January,...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Vision, Matt, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Sun's open source strategy overshadowed by legacy businesses: Sun reported a nightmare quarter, elicited more cold Java analogies than I can count and announced layoffs due to a weak economy. Can open source move the needle at Sun and spark some growth? In a word: No. Following Sun's dismal quarter, Matt Asay asks whether open...; Tags: Strategy, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-02
How can Microsoft overcome Vista's lingering image problem?: Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management, has a tough problem on his hands. Microsoft and its hardware/software partners have done a lot in the past 16 months to make Windows Vista a better operating system. With Service Pack SP 1, Microsoft has addressed some...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Nash & Co., Windows Team, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-01
Does open source programming make you a criminal?: <satire> The New York Times is working on a story saying open source programming makes you a criminal. Matt Richtel right called for an interview soon after learning that a jury had convicted open source programmer Hans Reiser of first degree murder. (Picture from TwelveBooks Publishing.) It...; Tags: Open Source, Programmer, Programming, Computer, Wally, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-04-30
Live Webcast: The Evolution of the Underground Spam Economy: Internet spam is no longer a mere inconvenience; it's become a highly destructive phenomenon that can have catastrophic results for organizations. Spamming used to be a simple endeavor - any person could easily setup a spamming operation in their basement by purchasing an Internet connection. Their...; Tags: Webcast, MessageLabs Ltd., Spamming, Internet Spam, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing; Webcasts 2008-04-29
Is the Amazon Kindle a low cost entertainment option?: Is the Amazon Kindle a low cost entertainment option?Thanks!Thanks for the link and the post, Matt!The conversation on this topic on my blog and elsewhere has really got me thinking a lot about the future of digital books, DRM, value, and a whole lot of other things. I expect I'll...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, entertainment option, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc., entertainment; Discussion threads 2008-04-27
Will BlackBerry devices continue to reign in the enterprise market?: Will BlackBerry devices continue to reign in the enterprise market?Remember RIM Now Claims 50% + Growth From ConsumerHi Matt,Keep in mind that during the last earnings report that RIM's consumer portion of subscribers is 38% and they are publicly stating that "more than half" of new additions came from the...; Tags: Enterprise software, Research In Motion Ltd., BlackBerry Devices, enterprise market, RIM BlackBerry; Discussion threads 2008-04-25