Michael Harvey is EVP of Centric CRM and a founding member of the OSA. His career spans 20 years and a variety of major industries. It includes roles as a general manager, as a business strategy consultant, and as a board member. Michael founded m.d.harvey & company in 1995 to provide strategy consulting to CEOs and senior executives in the Technology, Entertainment, and Media industries. Prior to establishing m.d.harvey & company, he worked in a variety of marketing and general management positions for Microsoft Corporation from 1989 to 1995, helping to launch many major products and initiatives.
The stakes are high. As an Open Solutions Association (OSA) board member and
executive VP of Centric CRM, my number-one fear is that the creativity and
dynamism of the past decade could come to nothing if open source application
vendors don't stand together and take a collective position. As isolated
entities they run the risk of getting picked off, one-by-one, leaving an
industry landscape dominated by multibillion-dollar giants like Microsoft and
Oracle.
To avoid such a scenario, the major challenge facing open source vendors is
to move beyond a community of enthusiasts and make open source applications a
credible option at both the enterprise and SMB level.
There's no doubt that the initial success of open source software development
and adoption - what me might call "Open Source 1.0" - has been one of the
most important phenomena in the IT industry of the past d... (more)
Michael Harvey is EVP of Centric CRM and a founding member of the OSA. His career spans 20 years and a variety of major industries. It includes roles as a general manager, as a business strategy consultant, and as a board member. Michael founded m.d.harvey & company in 1995 to provide strategy consulting to CEOs and senior executives in the Technology, Entertainment, and Media industries. Prior to establishing m.d.harvey & company, he worked in a variety of marketing and general management positions for Microsoft Corporation from 1989 to 1995, helping to launch many major products and initiatives.
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