Matthew covers data management software for The 451 Group, including relational and nonrelational databases, data warehousing and event processing. Matthew is also an expert in open source software and contributes regularly to reports produced through the 451 Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Service, as well as to the 451 CAOS Theory blog. Prior to joining The 451 Group, Matthew was Deputy Editor of monthly magazine Computer Business Review and ComputerWire's daily news service. There he covered Linux and open source software and launched the successful Open Source Weblog in January 2006. Matthew started in IT journalism in 1997 as a staff writer with monthly magazine Unix and NT News, where he became editor in 2000. He has also contributed to a number of other publications, including Unigram/X, IBM System User and JavaVision. Matthew holds a BA in Multimedia Journalism from Bournemouth University in the UK.

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Recent posts by Matthew Aslett:

• July 3, 2009: 451 CAOS Links 2009.07.03
  Ubuntu cloud services. PostgreSQL 8.4. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory "Tracking the open source news wires, so you don't ...
• July 1, 2009: VC funding for open source up and down in Q2
  Venture capital funding for open source vendors was down 50% in the second quarter compared to the same period last ...
• June 30, 2009: 451 CAOS Links 2009.06.30
  Governments. Governance. Customers wins. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory "Tracking the open source news wires, so you don't have ...
• June 26, 2009: 451 CAOS Links 2009.06.26
  Red Hat revenue growth. The importance of Eclipse Galileo. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory "Tracking the open source news ...
• June 25, 2009: Keeping an eye on Red Hat’s deferred revenue
  Dennis Byron is right to point out some "seeds of rain in the forecast" in Red Hat’s first-quarter financial results. ...
• June 23, 2009: 451 CAOS Links 2009.06.23
  Reductive Labs and eZ Systems raise funding. Virtual Iron bites the dust. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory "Tracking the ...
• June 22, 2009: How much is a UK Government-wide software contract worth?
  When Buying Solutions, the national procurement partner for UK public services, announced in May that it had signed a new ...
• June 19, 2009: 451 CAOS Links 2009.06.19
  Red Hat betas Enterprise Virtualization, partners with HP for SOA. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory "Tracking the open source ...
• June 19, 2009: If Microsoft wants its staff to understand the threat it faces from open source it should charge them to use its own software
  An excerpt from "After The Software Wars," a new book written by former Microsoft employee Keith Curtis highlights one of ...
• June 18, 2009: Actuate ‘treats’ its sales force to open source 101
  I had an interesting chat with Nobby Akiha , senior VP marketing and Rich Guth, VP open source strategy, at ...
• June 17, 2009: The commercialisation of Memcached
  There has been a significant increase in interest in the Memcached, the open source distributed memory object-caching system, in recent ...
• June 16, 2009: 451 CAOS Links 2009.06.16
  Open source and SMBs. New funding for Lucid Imagination. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory On open source and SMBs ...
• June 15, 2009: Call for papers: upcoming European open source events
  Two of the biggest open source events in Europe both announced their calls for papers today. Open World Forum 2009 ...
• June 12, 2009: 451 CAOS Links 2009.06.12
  Yahoo opens up Hadoop distribution. Microsoft and Novell claim customer wins. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory The elephant in ...
• June 9, 2009: 451 CAOS Links 2009.06.09
  Vyatta raises series C funding. Greenplum launches data cloud initiative. Fedora 11. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory # Vyatta ...
• June 8, 2009: Greenplum and the opportunity for cloud-based data warehousing
  I just published a post about opportunities for cloud-based databases and data warehousing over on our Too Much Information blog, ...
• June 5, 2009: 451 CAOS Links 2009.06.05
  Spring forward. Freeloaders, leeches and hermits. Intel buys Wind River. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory A Spring in its ...
• June 3, 2009: Separating the leeches from the potential contributors
  Earlire this week Infoworld published an article entitled "the fight over open source leeches", which I described as "a good ...
• June 2, 2009: 451 CAOS Links 2009.06.02
  Cloudera lands funding. SourceForge acquires Ohloh. Novell reports Linux growth. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory Cloudera shows signs of ...
• June 1, 2009: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Then what?
  Last week I asked the question, if open source has won, then where do we go from here? A number of ...

Recent comments by Matthew Aslett:

• June 20, 2009: The commercialisation of Memcached
  Good point Brian, that was implied, or was meant to be, by the fact...
   
• May 8, 2009: What the OSD doesn't say about open source
  Yes. http://wordpress.org/download/...
   
• May 7, 2009: What the OSD doesn't say about open source
  Thanks all for the great comments. The fact that the debate remains fascinating even...
   
• May 7, 2009: What the OSD doesn't say about open source
  I understand the logic, I just don't think the OSD is fit for the...
   
• April 17, 2009: Is it asking too much to expect corporate contributions from paying customers?
  That is a good point....
   
• April 15, 2009: Neither free as in speech, nor free as in beer
  I was using Savio's blog as an example. Our research backs up his views. Also,...
   
• April 7, 2009: On the importance of copyright assignment
  Good point Jack, those were typos on my part (Luke Kaines mentioned attribution at...
   
• March 31, 2009: A classification of open source business strategies
  Hi Vineet, It would depend on the SI concerned and the project but typically we...
   
• March 13, 2009: A classification of open source business strategies
  Interesting. I'm sure someone could do the same with the categories in our study....
   
• March 12, 2009: A classification of open source business strategies
  The fact that it depends or complements might be a technical detail but the...