ADVISORY/The O'Reilly Debate: Red Hat and Microsoft to Square Off.Business/Technology Editors ADVISORY...for Thursday (July 26) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
Event: The O'Reilly Debate: Red Hat and Microsoft to
Square Off
Location: The O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Sheraton San
Diego Hotel and Marina, Grande Ballrooms ABC
Webcast: http://www.technetcast.com/ or http://www.ddj.com/
(one hour following the event)
Day/Time: Thursday, July 26, 8:45-10:15 a.m. PDT
The highly anticipated showdown between Red Hat CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. Michael Tiemann Michael Tiemann is Vice President of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat Inc, as well as President of the Open Source Initiative. He previously was the Chief Technical Officer of Red Hat. and Microsoft Senior Vice President Craig Mundie Craig Mundie is chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft. External links
Red Hat is the undisputed leader in open source solutions. According to IDC, Linux was the fastest-growing server operating environment in 1998, 1999, and 2000, and Linux shipments increased more than 24 percent from 1999-2000, capturing 27 percent of the server operating system See network operating system. market and outpacing even Microsoft's growth during that period. A 2001 Netcraft survey also found that Linux is used for more public Web servers than any other non-Windows operating system--29 percent in total. The speeches from Tiemann and Mundie will be followed by a panel discussion with additional experts on intellectual property and the software industry, moderated by Tim O'Reilly. The event will take place on Thursday, July 26 from 8:45-10:15 a.m. at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) is an annual convention for the discussion of open source software, such as Linux, MySQL, Perl and Python. It is organized by the publisher O'Reilly Media and is held each summer in the United States. and Perl Conference 5 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, Grande Ballrooms ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. . Debate Web cast: A Web cast of the debate will be posted approximately one hour after the event at http://www.technetcast.com/ or http://www.ddj.com/. Additional Red Hat Speaking Events at O'Reilly: Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann will also be delivering a separate keynote speech, titled "Big Hairy Problems: Open Source Challenges in the Enterprise," on Friday, July 27, from 8:45-10:15 a.m. in the Grande Ballrooms ABC at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina. Additional Red Hat presenters at the show include: --Randy Ray, Web Engineer --Paul Weinstein, Internet Systems Virtuoso --Permaine Cheung, Database Engineer For details on a these presentations, please visit http://www.redhat.com/about/events/speakers.html |
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