About me

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Gordon Haff is Principal Analyst at BitMasons LLC where he provides advisory, consulting , and communications services with a focus on open source software and infrastructure, as well as other important areas of hardware and software innovation.

Previously, Gordon had a long career at Red Hat where he worked on market insights and portfolio architectures; wrote about tech, trends, and their business impact; and was a frequent speaker at customer and industry events. Areas of focus included open source policy, edge, AI, cloud-native platforms, and next-generation application architectures. His books include From Pots and Vats to Programs and Apps and How Open Source Ate Software. Prior to Red Hat, in his previous stint as an industry analyst, Gordon wrote hundreds of research notes, was frequently quoted in major publications on a wide range of IT topics, and advised clients on product and marketing strategies.

Gordon has engineering degrees from MIT and Dartmouth and an MBA from Cornell’s Johnson School of Management.

Email: gordon at alum.mit.edu

Twitter/X: @ghaff

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