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InfoWorld's Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) concluded March 26, 2008.
To review the event agenda and presentations available for download, please click here.

InfoWorld's next OSBC will be held March 10-11, 2009
at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA.



InfoWorld's Open Source Business Conference:
Putting Open Source to Work
March 25-26, 2008 at The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA

FEATURED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

  • Karl Paetzel, Manager, Open Source & Linux Organization, Hewlett-Packard Company
  • Steven Pearson, VP, Advanced Technologies, CBS Interactive
  • Brad Smith, SVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Microsoft Corporation
  • Jim Whitehurst, President & CEO, Red Hat
  • Jon Williams, CTO, Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions

PROGRAM OVERVIEW:

Looking back, it is almost shocking how far we have come as an industry with respect to open source in such a short time.  Moving from community-led to company-led open source -- from VCs and entrepreneurs looking to bring open source benefits to enterprises to today's open source adoption in every vertical market.

The more open source grows, the more it grows affiliated open source.  What are the implications for enterprise IT in a world where open source co-exists with existing IT infrastructure, networking, applications and services?

Join us in San Francisco to discuss Putting Open Source to Work. Presentations and panel discussions in OSBC's fifth year will explore how both traditional and non-traditional open source businesses are achieving benefits from platform flexibility and better performance to cost savings.

Over the course of two days, keynotes from the best and brightest IT minds -- spanning the open source big guns to Web 2.0 to mission-critical operations -- will preview the future of open source.  Plus, our staple sessions will help open source projects discover customer-friendly business strategies and enable legal professionals to assist in their clients' adoption of open source.

AGENDA TRACK HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Putting Open Source to Work...for the CIO/CTO
  • Putting Open Source to Work...for the CEO/CMO
  • Putting Open Source to Work...for the General Counsel
  • Putting Open Source to Work...Highlighted Products & Services