May 19, 2008 7:30 PM PDT
Open Season (Episode 17): Is Mike Olson the smartest man in the room?
Episode 17 of The Register's Open Season podcast proved to be highly interesting, what with Mike Olson of Sleepycat/Oracle joining us. Mike is one of the smartest guys out there in open source, and recently available as your next CEO.
In this episode we talk through One Laptop Per Child (and come to the conclusion that it's the wrong way to help developing nations), industry consolidation (maybe not as bad as we thought), "the cloud" (huh?), and more. Worth a listen, if for no other reason than to hear Mike.
Matt Asay is general manager of the Americas and vice president of business development at Alfresco, and has nearly a decade of operational experience with commercial open source and regularly speaks and publishes on open-source business strategy. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
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Odds and Ends
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Open Season,
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The Register,
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Mike Olson,
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OLPC
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