Open Source Business Conference Announces Keynote Speakers

Premier event for open source and business features keynote addresses from IBM, MySQL, OSDL, SpikeSource, Sun, VA Software, and authors Geoffrey Moore and Lawrence Lessig

OSBC, LLC today announced the second annual Open Source Business Conference(TM) (OSBC), the premier event for open source software and business, will be held April 5 and 6 at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco with featured keynote speakers from IBM, OSDL, SpikeSource, Sun Microsystems, VA Software, and authors Geoffrey Moore and Lawrence Lessig.

OSBC is designed for IT business executives (buyers and vendors), venture capitalists, attorneys, and other decision-makers tasked with developing businesses that leverage open source software. It explores the legal, investment, vendor and customer risks, rewards, and opportunities presented by open source software. Listen to keynote speeches from:

-- Jonathan Schwartz, president and COO, Sun Microsystems, on "Building Billion Dollar Businesses with Open Source and Open Communities;"

-- Kim Polese, CEO, SpikeSource (and former CEO of Marimba), on "Open Source in the Enterprise: Coping with Commodities in the New IT Marketplace;"

-- Geoffrey Moore, author, "Crossing the Chasm," on "Open Source Has Crossed the Chasm - Now What?"

-- Irving Wladawsky-Berger, vice president, Technology and Strategy, IBM, on "Innovation: In IT, Business and Society;"

-- Larry Augustin, CEO, Medsphere Systems (chair of VA Software), on "The Next Wave of Open Source - Applications;"

-- Marten Mickos, CEO, MySQL, on "Open Source Stacks Up;"

-- Lawrence Lessig, Professor and author, Stanford Law School, on "Emerging Threats to Open Source Software;"

-- Stuart Cohen, CEO, Open Source Development Labs, in conversation with Andrew Morton, lead maintainer of the Linux kernel, on "Kernel Matters - How Linux Is Made and What That Means for Your Business."

OSBC is a unique venue for gaining insights from the leaders in open source and business. Where do the top venture capitalists see the biggest market opportunities? What is Microsoft's evolving strategy around open source? After SCO, where do legal authorities see risks in open source software and how can your firm best prepare? After Wind River turned its embedded operating system business model upside down to embrace Linux, what has it learned and how have its customers responded? How is Linux made and how can your organization participate?

Additional speakers and panelists at Open Source Business Conference represent a wide range of industries, including:

-- Vendors: Computer Associates, HP, IBM, Microsoft, MontaVista, Novell, PalmSource, Qualcomm, SAP, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, VERITAS, Wind River Systems;

-- Corporate Users: ADP, Cingular Wireless, Corporate Express, Cisco Systems, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley; NASA;

-- Law Firms: Allston & Bird, LLP; Cooley Godward LLP; Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP; Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich; Greenberg Traurig, LLP; Holme Roberts Owen LLP; Rosenlaw & Einschlag; Shaw Pittman;

-- Emerging Companies: Canyonbridge, JBoss, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Scalix, SpikeSource, SugarCRM, Tenable;

-- Venture Capital: Accel Partners, Index Ventures, Matrix Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners and Worldview Technology Partners.

For more information or to register for this event, please visit http://www.osbc.com.

Contacts

OSBC
Mike Sponseller, 508-424-4837
mike_sponseller@idg.com

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