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OSBC: Footnote with Brad Smith

You have to hand it to Brad Smith, general counsel for Microsoft. Last night he delivered the "footnote" address at the Open Source Business Conference 2008. Not only was the general counsel for Microsoft going to have a tough crowd, but he agreed to talk for 30 minutes,

OSBC: The State of the Open Source Database Market

An interesting panel in an area that is really heating up. The panel consisted of participants from 451 Group (moderator Matthew Aslett), EnterpriseDB (Andy Astor), Ingres (Roger Burkhardt), Oracle (Ken Jacobs) and MySQL (Zack Urlocker). This was the last panel I attended last night, so I'm going from

OSBC: What Open Source Can Learn from Microsoft and the Proprietary World

Got a decent seat for this one, so am going to attempt a pseudo live blog. Panel: Stephen Walli (moderator), Jean Barmash (Alfresco), Neelan Choksi (SpringSource), Sam Ramji (Microsoft) and Jim Zemlin (Linux Foundation). Microsoft has more community around it than some in the Open Source community realize or give

OSBC: The Future of Open Source & The Future of Operating Systems

...were the two panels I chose to attend this afternoon. The Future of Open Source included reps from Ingres, MySQL AB, SugarCRM, Ubuntu and Acquia. It was standing room only and as such it was a bit difficult for me to take notes (the iPhone is really poor for this,

OSBC Opening Keynotes

The Open Source Business Conference opened this morning with keynotes from Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO or Red Hat, and Steven Pearson, VP Advanced technologies at CBS Interactive. Matt Asay started the morning off with a video based on his "fighting a rising tide riff". The audience at

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Open Source Business Conference

I'll be in San Francisco for the next few days to attend the Open Source Business Conference. I was considering attending the Microsoft "Open Source ISV Forum", but it seems they declined my application to attend :) If you'll be in the area and would

OSBC Slides Posted

If you weren't able to attend OSBC, Matt has already started posting some of the keynote slides. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. The following is what happened to the performance of the ETrade platform as they switched to Linux. They did the roll out in

Second Day OSBC Wrap up

The OSBC is now officially over and here's my second day wrap up. The opening keynote consisted of Rob Curley, Marten Mickos and Lee Thompson. I had never seen Rob speak before, but he is extremely entertaining and had some very good information. He maintained that what him

Closing notes on the first day of OSBC

Overall I have to say I've really enjoyed the first day of OSBC. I'm getting an entirely different perspective on many things, which is good. It's easy to get a bit insular when you are only exposed to a single side of an argument.

More OSBC Coverage

So far the OSBC has been interesting. It's definitely much different than most shows I've attended. A much more business focus, with the number of people literally wearing suits at > 40%. For a while, I thought I was probably one of the only "community&

OSBC Underway

The OSBC is officially underway. The opening keynote was the always interesting Matthew Szulik. I'm not sure who does the Red Hat short videos, but they are consistently both entertaining and compelling (even if some of the themes are reused quite a bit). Some interesting tidbits from the

In San Francisco for OSBC

Landed in San Francisco earlier today and spent most of the day walking around. The OSBC starts tomorrow morning. My recent post on Dell and Ubuntu seems to have gotten a fair bit of attention while I was traveling. If I get any further information I'll be sure

Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit

I'm happy to announce that I'll be attending the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit at Google's Mountain View Campus. It looks to be a great event to discuss the future direction of Linux and Open Source. If you'll be attending, I'll