SDForum Hosts the First Ever Think Tank on the Future of Commercial Open Source21 January 2006
SDForum announced today The Future of Commercial Open Source, an invitation only, professionally moderated workshop bringing the foremost thought leaders together to assess the impact of open source on the commercial software industry. Software companies face numerous challenges and opportunities as open source continues to disrupt business and licensing models. Executives, investors and experts will be shaping the future of open source in this ground- breaking event. The Future of Commercial Open Source will take place on Thursday, January 19, at Networking Meeting Center, in Santa Clara, 9:00 AM - 1:45 PM.
"There has never been an event of this kind," said Andrew Aitken, Managing Partner at Olliance Group and Co-Chair for the event. "Many of the top thought leaders will come together in a collegial and open environment to discuss the opportunities, challenges, and future of commercial open source."
"When I first convened the Open Source Summit in 1998, most commercial software vendors dismissed open source as a fringe phenomenon," said Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media. "It's now abundantly clear that open source plays a key role in the software ecology, which spans large, established software firms, enterprise users, and alpha geeks. Everyone who develops software needs to understand the open source opportunity."
As open source transforms and influences every company operating within the software industry questions arise: 'How will open source continue to impact the software industry and customer usage models' and 'How will the commercial open source community evolve'. These are only a few of the questions that the 60 invited participants will consider when attending this exclusive event that will result in a report to be published in late January.
Invitees will participate in a dynamic executive roundtable with Jonathan Schwartz, President of Sun Microsystems and Rod Smith, Corporate VP of Emerging Technology for IBM and Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO O'Reilly Media. They will also hear from renowned speaker and writer Doc Searls, who will be the featured closing keynote speaker at this innovative event.
"SDForum has organized a timely and thought provoking event on Open Source," said Rod Smith, VP of Emerging Technology for IBM. " I am excited to exchange ideas with industry peers and with audience participants. IBM is fortunate to have been active within the open source community for awhile now, and has always been interested in encouraging cross-pollination between the commercial sector and the open source world."
"Sun Microsystems is built on the principles of openness and innovation," said Jonathan Schwartz, President and COO of Sun Microsystems. " We've contributed more code to the open source community than any other company on earth and we're committed to furthering its future. I believe that we in the technology industry have a responsibility to remove the barriers to participation on the network and help fuel innovation and economic opportunity -- and I believe open source helps us reach that goal."
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