Bailing out your business with open source
9:45 - 10:15 - Telford Theatre
Speaker: Matt Asay
Abstract: As the global economy has imploded, enterprises are searching for ways to cut costs without cutting productivity. It's perhaps not surprising, therefore, that Gartner finds that 85% of enterprises are adopting open source for these very purposes. In this keynote session, Matt Asay will identify ways in which open-source software can help you shrink IT expenses while simultaneously improving productivity, efficiency, and total cost of ownership (TCO).
Bio: Matt Asay has been involved with open source for a decade, and currently serves as vice president of Business Development for Alfresco, the leading open source Enterprise Content Management and Collaboration company. Asay writes CNET's open source blog and chairs the Open Source Business Conference. Asay earned his juris doctorate from Stanford, where he studied open-source licensing under Professor Lawrence Lessig. He serves as an advisor to several leading open-source companies including SugarCRM, JasperSoft, MindTouch, Lucid Imagination, Openbravo, Loopfuse, and others.