Executive moves: Ashlee Vance ditches The Register for the New York Times
In a sign of a snarkier times to come for the New York Times, The Register's Ashlee Vance has announced that he'll be joining the Times, effective September 2. Ashlee is, of course, my cohort (along with MuleSource's Dave Rosenberg) on the Open Season podcast, which may wither at the Times. Methinks it's not into open-source podcasts....
As he noted in an email:
I'm leaving The Register after more than five glorious years at the publication and heading to The New York Times. I'll be covering enterprise/business computing stuff, so much the same beat as I handled at The Register. I'll be reporting online and in print.
I wish Ashlee the best of luck. He's a great guy and a great journalist. He's also famous: Fake Steve Jobs managed to ridicule him on a number of different levels. What could be better than to have Dan Lyons (aka "Fake Steve Jobs") trash you when you're at a publication that takes great delight in trashing others? :-)
In all seriousness, here's hoping that The Register finds a capable replacement. While I'm glad to see Ashlee at the Times, I don't want The Register to lose its edge.
Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay. 
I hope you guys find a way of continuing the Open Season podcast. It has had a profound influence on my view of the open source environment, and no doubt I?m not alone.