September 15, 2008 1:42 PM PDT
The billion-dollar open-source opportunity (Presentation)
Using the exceptional 280Slides web application to write, edit, and host a presentation I delivered at a recent open-source conference, I've included the presentation below and would love feedback.
Following on a theme that I've been hitting lately, the real money in open source will come as the industry learns to engage customers in the development process. We need, in other words, to learn how to make open source a customer-fed renewable resource.
Take a look, and let me know what you think. I'm going to be presenting on this and related themes a lot over the coming year.
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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