Open Source Business Conference 2004
OSBC2004 ORGANIZERS SAY TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY LACKS A SUFFICIENT FORUM TO DISCUSS THE BUSINESS OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
Leading Visionaries and Companies to Gather at OSBC2004 Conference to Address the Business, Legal and Financial Issues of Open Source Software Vendors and End-User Organizations
San Francisco, CA - Jan 13, 2004 - Despite the rapid success of open source technology advancements during the past decade, technology vendors remain uncertain of the business, legal and financial conclusions that will unfold as open source technology continues its aggressive trend of market share expansion.
Organizers of OSBC2004 (Open Source Business Conference 2004) have successfully assembled the industry's leading open source vendors, visionaries, legal counsel and financiers to create a forum where the best companies and individuals can gather to discuss the current and future business issues surrounding open source software.
"OSBC is a place for analyzing, debating and forecasting the business future of open source software," said Mike Dutton, OSBC co-producer. "Conference content is focused on the foundational business elements that will make or break the next decades' open source technology inventions, products and services."
OSBC2004 will be held March 16-17, in San Francisco at The Westin St. Francis. View details at www.osbc2004.com .
The conference includes an unprecedented gathering of open source business leaders, including:
- Clayton M. Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma and a professor at the Harvard Business School;
- Raymond Lane, General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and former President, Oracle;
- Chris Stone, Vice Chairman of Novell;
- Eben Moglen, General Counsel of the Free Software; and
- Martin Fink, Vice President and CTO , Business Critical Systems, Hewlett Packard and author, The Business and Economics of Open Source;
among other presenters.
Corporate sponsors include Boston Consulting Group, Computer Associates, Finnegan Henderson, HP, IBM, Metrowerks, Microsoft, Novell, OSAIA, Summit Law Group and VERITAS. Media sponsors include Business 2.0, Fortune, Information Week, Optimize and ZDNet.
In addition to keynotes and presentations from these sponsors, other presenters represent the research and business experience of the industry's leading open source-savvy technology, finance and legal organizations, including, among others:
- Vendors: BEA, BMC, EDS, MontaVista, Oracle, Redhat, SAP, SONY, Sun, Symantec.
- Corporate Users: Amazon, AT&T Wireless, Ford, Goldman Sachs, Google, Morgan Stanley.
- Law Firms: Cooley Godward, Davis Polk Wardwell, Gray Cary, Tomlinson Zisko, Wilson Sonsini.
- Emerging Companies: CollabNet, Covalent, MySQL, Rackable, Scalix, Sendmail, SourceFire, Zope.
- VCs: Azure Capital, Benchmark, Fidelity Ventures, Index Ventures, Intel Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, NEA.
"A deep, business-level focus is OSBC's greatest point of differentiation from other open source-targeted events that focus on tradeshow floors, sales pitches, research services or engineering roadmaps," added Dutton. "OSBC is the first major independent forum for executives, attorneys and financiers facing the tough business issues surrounding open source technology."
About Open Source Business Conference
The Open Source Business Conference ("OSBC") is the leading independent forum for addressing the business, legal and financial issues facing technology vendors and end user organizations deploying open source software. OSBC 2004 will be held March 16-17, in San Francisco at the Westin St. Francis. View details and register at www.osbc2004.com .
Contact:
Lyle Ball
OSBC Development & Marketing
Email: lball at osbc2004.com
Tel: (801) 860-3688
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