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Source: Manila Standard Today - Posted by Anthony Pell
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OPEN source industry veteran Matt Asay joined Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu Linux, as its chief operating officer last month. In his new post, Asay is responsible for aligning the company’s day-to-day operations with strategic goals and leading the company’s marketing effort.
Before joining Canonical, Asay was vice president for business development at Alfresco, makers of an open source enterprise content management system. Before this, he was a founding member of Novell’s Linux Business Office in 2002 and helped drive the company’s shift to open source. In 2003 he founded the Open Source Business Conference, the industry’s premier open source strategy event. He also writes a well-regarded column called the Open Road for CNet.
After barely a month on the job, Asay answered some e-mailed questions about what we might expect from Ubuntu and Linux in general.
Question: How do you reconcile the view of the operating system becoming less relevant and the promotion of Ubuntu Linux on the desktop?
Asay: It is absolutely true that the operating system will fade from public view even as it becomes more and more important to the private view of those that care about infrastructure. Google Chrome OS customers, in other words, may not care about Linux, but Google certainly does. It is the robustness of the operating system and its services that makes it possible for the lay user to forget about it.
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