Pamplona - October 2, 2007 - Openbravo, the leading developer of web-based open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions for small and medium businesses, has announced that open source guru Matt Asay will be the keynote speaker at the Openbravo 'Get Together' event in Barcelona, Spain, from October 26th to 28th. His presentation 'Community Capitalism: The Art of Corporate Involvement in Open Source Communities' will take place on Saturday the 27th at 10:00 a.m. The keynote will identify the most successful mechanisms that commercial open source vendors and community open source projects have found to improve the depth and breadth of their communities, as well as how end users can derive significant benefits from participating in and contributing to relevant open source communities.

Matt Asay has ten years' operational experience working with commercial open source technology, and regularly speaks and publishes on emerging open source business strategies and opportunities. He is considered one of the industry's leading open source business strategists and is a prolific blogger on open source, where he is a regular contributor to ZDNet and CNET.

Asay co-founded Novell's Linux Business Office in 2002 and was an early agitator and architect for the company's shift to open source. He is currently the VP Business Development of open source content management vendor Alfresco, a board member at Open Source Initiative and advisor of several leading open source vendors.

The event, the Openbravo 'Get Together', to be held on the October 26th to 28th in Barcelona, Spain, will provide a forum for Openbravo customers, partners and the whole community to come together and experience a selection of workshops and seminars looking at market opportunities, projects and business successes in the world of open source, ERP systems.

Matt Asay said, "Open source has come a long way in the last decade. With open source talent increasing steadily, it's simply become a better, more efficient way to distribute and develop software; and should see more and more enterprises implementing open source solutions. I look forward to taking part in the Openbravo 'Get Together' event, which provides an important forum for industry professionals and the whole open source community to share ideas with like-minded individuals, building on their own knowledge as well as networking."

Manel Sarasa, CEO of Openbravo, said, "We are very excited to have Matt Asay on board as a guest speaker at our first Openbravo 'Get Together' event. Matt has a wealth of experience and knowledge of open source and how it enables new business opportunities across different software-related industries. His keynote greatly enhances our aim of organizing an event that will help our growing community attain maximum visibility into open source technology, as well as our own product and services. By including seminars on best user practices and providing valuable insight into the industry, we hope to lay out our own open source vision for the future; all the while creating a forum for discussion where organizations can come together and share ideas."