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| 10:15 am–11:15 am |
S08 Conference Sessions
 Open Source Landscape (Location: South Seas C ) This session will explore the top Open Source software categories and the leading vendors in each. The most popular and innovative products in each category will be examined. Speaker - Daniel Kohn, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation Jim Zemlin, formerly executive director of the Free Standards Group, is the executive director of the Linux Foundation. Zemlin previously served as vice president of marketing for Covalent Technologies, the leader in products and services for the Apache web server. Prior to that, he was a member of the founding management team of Corio, a leading enterprise application service provider that had a successful initial public offering in July 2000. Widely quoted in the press on open source and commercial software trends, Zemlin has also been a keynote speaker at industry and financial conferences including Gartner's Open Source Conference, Linux World and OSCON. Zemlin also has a regular column in Enterprise Open Source Journal and is an advisor on open source strategy to various companies and governmental groups including Hyperic, Zmanda and the Chinese Open Source Promotion Union.
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| 11:30 am–12:30 pm |
S08 Conference Sessions
IP Issues in Open Source: What Vendors and IT Buyers Need to Know (Location: South Seas C ) While being extremely economical, Open Source comes with its own set of IP issues. Buyers and vendors might get burned if they do not address these issues while licensing the software. This session specifically discusses various licensing strategies that companies have employed, and the risks and benefits of these approaches.
Speaker - Janet Campbell, Legal Counsel and Manager, Eclipse Foundation
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| 3:45 pm–4:45 pm |
S08 Conference Sessions
How Digital Killed the Analog Store: Open Source and SAAS Solutions Virtualize Global IT Delivery (Location: South Seas C ) The intent of this presentation is to review emerging best practices for provisioning and supporting IT requirements nearly virtually to deliver superior solutions on a subscription basis. It will show how to deliver reliable IT without traditional large investments in data centers, hardware, software, services and staffing. It will also show how digital killed traditional music distribution, and relate this to how virtual IT through Open Source and SAAS will cut the trend towards large hardware investments or outsourcing.
Speaker - Doug Harr, CIO, Ingres Chief Information Officer of Ingres and Resident Music Aficionado Doug Harr is the chief information officer for Ingres and a music lover at heart. During his career, Doug has focused on building Information Technology and Professional Service organizations that design, deliver, and support business solutions. These solutions have involved multiple technologies, applications, and industries. In off hours, Doug works diligently to keep up with new musical groups and attend as many concerts as possible. Doug and his IT team have implemented an innovative approach to IT by staying clear of the closed source perpetual license models and focusing solely on SaaS and Open Source solutions to get the job done. Prior to joining Ingres, Doug acted as CIO at Portal Software. He was also the senior vice president of professional services at Core Technology Group, Inc., a provider of services to deploy packaged and custom business applications to a wide variety of clients. Doug holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a Computer Science (MIS) minor from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is a member of the Consortium for Information System Executives (CISE), and is guest lecturer for the MBA program at San Francisco State University.
| | Wednesday, April 30 |
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| 10:15 am–11:15 am |
S08 Conference Sessions
The Convergence of Open Source and SaaS (Location: South Seas C ) Open Source and SaaS are converging to fundamentally change the economics of enterprise software. This convergence will radically alter the selection, investment, deployment, operations support and upgrade models that organizations use today. What does this convergence mean to vendors and to customers? A panel of vendors, customers and analysts discusses these issues.
Speaker - Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director, THINKstrategies, Inc. Jeff Kaplan is the Founder and Managing Director of THINKstrategies, a strategic consulting firm that helps IT enterprise decision-makers with their sourcing strategies; solution providers with their marketing strategies; and venture firms with their investment strategies. Jeff is also the founder of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Showplace online directory. (www.saas-showplace.com) Prior to forming THINKstrategies, Jeff served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at InterOPS Management Solutions, and was Director of Strategic Marketing at International Network Services (INS) and subsequently Lucent Technologies, which acquired INS. Jeff also spent thirteen (13) years as a leading industry analyst at IDC, Dataquest and META Group. Jeff is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and contributing columnist for BusinessWeek, Mass High Tech Journal, Financial Times of London, NetworkWorld, Business Communications Review, ComputerWorld, InformationWeek, Managing Automation, and the Web Hosting Industry Review on topics ranging from SaaS to managed services, utility computing to outsourcing strategies. For more information, visit his site at www.thinkstrategies.com, or contact him at jkaplan@thinkstrategies.com.
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| 11:30 am–12:30 pm |
S08 Conference Sessions
Open Source Governance: Recognizing & Dealing with the Risks of Free Software (Location: South Seas C ) Open source software provides incredible economic benefits. However, if software proliferation is not managed properly, it can lead to legal, technical, and/or organizational discomfort that can result in very negative impacts to the business. An increasing number of companies have recognized these realities and are developing processes, tools, and expertise to both foster, and govern the use of open source software within their companies. This session will describe the experiences and learning of leading companies engaged in open source, focusing on open source governance and some of the best practices they've identified along the way.
Moderator - Daniel Kohn, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation Jim Zemlin, formerly executive director of the Free Standards Group, is the executive director of the Linux Foundation. Zemlin previously served as vice president of marketing for Covalent Technologies, the leader in products and services for the Apache web server. Prior to that, he was a member of the founding management team of Corio, a leading enterprise application service provider that had a successful initial public offering in July 2000. Widely quoted in the press on open source and commercial software trends, Zemlin has also been a keynote speaker at industry and financial conferences including Gartner's Open Source Conference, Linux World and OSCON. Zemlin also has a regular column in Enterprise Open Source Journal and is an advisor on open source strategy to various companies and governmental groups including Hyperic, Zmanda and the Chinese Open Source Promotion Union.
Speaker - Brian Gentile, President and CEO, JasperSoft
Speaker - Dominic Sartorio, President, Open Solutions Alliance Dominic Sartorio is President of the Open Solutions Alliance, a non-profit consortium focusing on the interoperability and adoption of open source solutions. He is also senior director of product management at SpikeSource, a venture-funded company specializing in the test, integration, delivery and support of open source solutions. Dominic has a masters degree in computer science from MIT and 15 years of experience in web applications and application integration, including roles in engineering, pre-sales, alliances and product management at various companies including Oracle and BEA Systems.
Speaker - Doug Levin, President and CEO, Black Duck Software Doug Levin is president and CEO of Black Duck Software. He is considered a premiere speaker on how software IP affects the burgeoning Transformative Enterprise ? the enterprise of the future that extends the practice of distributed development and encompasses new technologies and services such as open source software, services and other components which constitute new composite software. Levin?s clear vision of how to manage the technologies required to make the Transformative Enterprise grow is helping companies innovate and deliver products to market more quickly than ever before. Levin believes that by automating the management of in-house, downloaded or licensed-in software components, departments across all functional areas of a company can work together to govern software assets without bogging down development. Very few software industry luminaries have the perspective that Levin has gained from a rich history at the world?s leading technology companies. Before founding Black Duck Software in 2002, Levin was the CEO of MessageMachines and X-Collaboration Software Corporation, two VC-backed companies based in Boston. He has also worked as an interim executive at IBM/Lotus Development Corporation, Oracle Software Corporation, and other companies. Levin also spent more than eight years at Microsoft Corporation. Levin?s sought after opinions on software IP have put him at the podium in a number of venues not limited to LinuxWorld San Francisco, LinuxWorld Korea, and Open Source Meets Business. He recently testified in front of Senator Kerry?s Small Business and Entrepreneur subcommittee in the United States Senate. Doug is an adjunct lecturer (on leave of absence) of Entrepreneurship and Management at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also holds a certificate in international economics from the College d'Europe in Bruges, Belgium.
Speaker - Fabrizio Capobianco, President, Funambol
Speaker - Ross Turk, Community Manager, SourceForge Ross Turk has been with the SourceForge family since 2000, and has served in multiple capacities during his tenure. Most recently, as the Engineering Manager for SourceForge.net, he spearheaded efforts to improve to the world's largest destination for open source, including the new Software Map and Search and major navigation and aesthetic overhauls. In his current role, Ross is responsible for communicating with the SourceForge.net community and responding to their needs. During his twelve-year career, he has focused on assessing and optimizing the business and engineering processes of a wide variety of engineering organizations, always with a passion for Open Source methodologies. Ross can be reached at rturk@corp.sourceforge.com.
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| 3:45 pm–4:45 pm |
S08 Conference Sessions
Application Virtualization - What is it All About? (Location: South Seas C ) Organizations are increasingly tying their physical systems, networks, and applications to virtualized environments to achieve greater reliability, performance and flexibility in delivering services to business customers. This means tying the loosely coupled world of Service Oriented Architectures with virtualized environments such as VMWare, incorporating application virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructures and virtual lifecycle management. How companies approach this type of transition is critical to their success. Come listen to the approaches and requirements necessary to link Service Oriented Architectures to Virtualization to ultimately deliver application virtualization and more importantly how to manage this new environment. For example, how should organizations prepare? Why is it important to understand the dependencies within their line of business applications when migrating to a virtual environment? How can they manage the physical and virtual worlds as single environment? How can organizations verify that their systems conform to corporate and government oversight requirements in a way that meets their needs without becoming burdensome?
Speaker - Nelson Hsu, Director, EMC Nelson Hsu leads product marketing and strategy efforts for the EMC Resource Management Software Group in the areas of virtualization, SaaS, compliance and change management including VMware and RSA initiatives. He has over 23 years experience in applications, databases, data integration, networks, VoIP and SOA architectures. Previously, he was a principal at Hurwitz & Associates an industry analyst firm specializing in SOA, virtualization and IT management. Prior to Hurwtiz, he was the VP of ww business development for Attunity, a $100m BI and datawarehouse vendor and has held executive positions in corporate development, strategic alliances, marketing, product management and engineering at Digital, NetCentric, Sybase, Powersoft and was a co-founder of Voxeo Corporation - a VoIP Application Service Provider. Nelson holds a MBA from Southern New Hampshire College and a BS in Computer Science from Northeastern University.
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