March 7, 2006 7:21 AM PST

The Open Road - Disclosure

Matt Asay is an employee with Alfresco, an open-source software vendor. He is the founder of the Open Source Business Conference and continues to serve as its program chair. He serves on the advisory boards of the following open-source companies: MuleSource, SugarCRM, JasperSoft, Loopfuse, Openbravo, Volantis, rSmart, MindTouch, Specifix, and Bungee Labs. He has an equity interest in these companies. He is an informal advisor to Microsoft, Jumpbox, and other companies with no equity or other financial interest. He is an advisor to Sage Leadership with no financial or equity interest in the organization.

He formally served on the board of the Open Source Initiative. He was also an employee of Novell and before that Lineo and Mitsui. He left each company on good terms, and holds no financial interest in any of these.

He's a Mac fanatic and hates Windows. Matt also admits to a bias against 20th-century proprietary-software models. Sorry.

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  • About The Open Road

  • Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to the Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is general manager of the Americas division and vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. Disclosure.

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