Open Source Business Conference Kicks Off on Tuesday, April 5 in San Francisco.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Premier event for Open Source and business features keynote addresses by industry leaders, a startup showcase, and education for business leaders, lawyers and VC's Open Source Business Conference(TM) will take place April 5-6, 2005 at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco. OSBC OSBC Open Source Business Conference OSBC One Stop Business Center (TM), the premier event for Open Source software and business, also announced the dates for the 2006 event in San Francisco. It will take place two months earlier next year, running February 14-15, 2006. With panel and speaking tracks designed for IT enterprise customers and vendors as well as legal, venture and investment professionals, the event is the premier venue for unveiling and discussing Open Source market strategies at the world's largest Open Source customers, information technology firms and the industry's most promising emerging start-ups. Keynotes Keynote speeches will be given by Jonathan Schwartz Jonathan Schwartz or Jon Schwartz is the name of several persons:
 This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . and author, "Emerging Threats to Open Source Software." Conference Track Topics --Intellectual Property: sessions will examine the complex legal issues surrounding Open Source software, including patents, dual licensing, corporate review boards, monitoring incoming and outgoing code contributions, and much more. Attendees can earn up to 11 CLE Cle total elimination clearance. credits. --Emerging Opportunities: sessions will highlight the industry's most successful startups, the VCs who fund them and the strategies and technologies that are paying the biggest returns. --CIO - IT Executive: sessions are designed for CIOs and business people interested in knowing where and how Open Source software is being used within the enterprise. --Enterprise Strategy: sessions will cover the winning Open Source strategies being deployed by IT vendors. OSBC Startup Showcase The "OSBC Startup Showcase" will provide an unparalleled "coming out" party for the industry's most promising Open Source startups. Last year 20 startups participated in this track and most have since received funding. In many instances, the connection between startup and venture capital was made at OSBC. Approximately 25 startups will be selected from an estimated pool of 150+ potential Open Source startups, and these companies will be on display. The Showcase is the ideal forum for IT buyers to see the next generation of IT providers. Awards will also be presented during the show for the top companies in the Showcase. Sponsors Cornerstone sponsor Sun Microsystems is joined by platinum sponsors Microsoft, Novell and Oracle as lead underwriters of OSBC. Gold sponsors include Computer Associates, Dell, Intel, Optaros and Realm Systems. Silver sponsors include DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , Finnegan Henderson LLP and Zend. Emerging start-up sponsors include ComPiere, Forum Systems, Funambol, Humano2, OpenLogic, Spikesource, SugarCRM, Simula A simulation language originating in the late 1960s that was used to model the behavior of complex systems. SIMULA was the original object-oriented language. (language) SIMULA - SIMUlation LAnguage. See Lund Simula, SIMULA 67, SIMULA I. Venture Labs and Univa. Media OSBC is also attracting leading business media to explore with industry leaders and some of the world's largest customers of Open Source software about the fundamental changes wrought by open source in technology. Join panel discussions led by Business 2.0, BusinessWeek, the Economist, the Financial Times, The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times and more. For more information or to register for this event, please visit http://www.osbc.com. About OSBC The Open Source Business Conference(TM) is the only event that provides an educational forum for business leaders (both IT buyers and vendors), lawyers and venture capitalists focusing on the opportunities and challenges that open source technology presents. Attend this exceptional conference program led by well known thought leaders and industry executives and become part of the event where important issues are discussed and the future will be determined. |
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