Larry Augustin's Weblog: LinuxWorld Boston Open Source Applications Track

March 21, 2006

LinuxWorld Boston Open Source Applications Track

I'm the track chair for the Open Source Applications track at LinuxWorld Boston April 4-6 2006. This is probably one of the strongest set of sessions I've seen representing some of the best of Open Source applications. Hopefully you'll find this to be a great track if you're trying to understand how you can utilize Open Source software to run your business. You'll be hearing the messages directly from the people in charge as well: we've got 10 CEOs, 1 COO, and 1 CTO as speakers in this track. Anyone who thinks Open Source isn't yet delivering applications for business needs to come to this track and learn otherwise. In the last two years we've reached a true turning point where Open Source developers are now building real business applications.

I'm also beginning to program conference sessions for LinuxWorld San Francisco in August. Although submissions are officially closed, I'm still open to hearing input and feedback as to what you want to see and how we can improve the conference program.

I hope to see you at the show.

Session	Date & Time	Speaker	Title
OSA1	Tuesday, April 4, 10:15am	James Smith, Michael Malgeri, IBM	Developing Open Source Business Applications Using Application Wikis
OSA2	Tuesday, April 4, 11:15am	Peter Yared, CEO, ActiveGrid	Leveraging Open Source to Build Web 2.0
OSA3	Tuesday, April 4, 2:30pm	Seth Hallem, CEO, Coverity	Get the Facts on LAMP Applications Quality and Security
OSA4	Tuesday, April 4, 3:30pm	Kathy Pink, COO, Compiere	Open Source ERP & CRM - From Oddity to Main Stream
OSA5	Wednesday, April 5, 10:15am	Jeff Barr, Technology Evangelist, Amazon.com	Opening Up: Sharing Data and Technology as a Growth Strategy
OSA6	Wednesday, April 5, 11:15am	Stephen O’Grady, Moderator (Senior Analysts, Redmonk); Mike Olson (CEO Sleepycat); Marten Mickos (CEO MySQL); Andy Astor (CEO, EnterpriseDB)	Are Open Source Databases Ready for Enterprise Applications?
Keynote	Wednesday, April 5, 1:15pm	Larry Augustin, Moderator; John Roberts (CEO, SugarCRM); Marten Mickos (CEO, MySQL); Marc Fleury (CEO, JBoss); Peter Levine (CEO, XenSource)	The Death of the Enterprise Software Business Model: How Startups are Leveraging Open Source in Sales and Marketing
OSA7	Wednesday, April 5, 2:30pm	Richard Daley, CEO, Pentaho	A Survey of Open Source Business Intelligence Applications
OSA8	Wednesday, April 5, 3:30pm	John Roberts, CEO SugarCRM	Evaluating Open Source versus Proprietary Enterprise Applications
OSA9	Thursday, April 6, 10:15am	Venkat Raghavan, (Program Director, IBM); Dave Horne (Engineering Manager, Novell); Olaf Stullich (Principal Product Manager, Oracle).	Identity Management and Authentication in an Enterprise Applications Environment
OSA10	Thursday, April 6, 11:15am	Open
OSA11	Thursday, April 6, 2:30pm	Scott Dietzen, CTO, Zimbra	Is your email stuck in 1996?

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It does look great, Larry. One question: how could you possibly have an open source applications track without Alfresco? You know I'm biased on this one, but I also know what our revenues are and the kinds of customers that are buying Alfresco. Marquee customers, large average deal sizes, etc. What's not to like?

Posted by: Matt Asay | March 24, 2006 at 03:29 PM

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Robert Jordan: Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, Book 11)
I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I'm still reading Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series. When he passed L. Ron Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth decology I could have cried. Maybe WoT will be made into the worst movie of all time? Still, I've been following the saga of Rand al'Thor for more than a decade now, and I want to see how it ends. Rumor is that the next book, Memory of Light, will in fact conclude the saga. To borrow a phrase, "There should have been only one." (**)
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
My family got me Quicksilver for Christmas. I'm not far into it, but it's clearly a Stephenson book: lots of historical connections, multiple timeline unfolding simultaneously, meticulous historical detail, 100 pages in the plot is still a total mystery, big "thud"factor... Should be a great read.
Chris DiBona: Open Sources 2.0
Anything edited by Chris DiBona is worth spending the time to read.
David Kahn: The Codebreakers : The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
I'm just getting started with this one, but so far it's a fascinating account of the history of cryptology. It's a massive 1200 pages, so it may be a while before I move on to something else.

My Events

You can find me at these upcoming events
2010-07-21 to 2010-07-22 OSCON.
I'll be at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) on Wednesday and Thursday. SugarCRM engineer John Mertic is speaking at OSCON.
2010-07-28 AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford.
Jeff Kaplan of THINKstrategies is moderating a panel session at the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford including Marten Mickos, Swayne Hill, Treb Ryan, Lars Buytaert, and me. I'm looking forward to a great discussion.
2010-09-27 to 2010-09-29 Paris Open Source ThinkTank.
Olliance Open Source ThinkTanks are always great events, and I'll thrilled to be at the Paris event again this year.
2010-09-30 to 2010-10-01 Open World Forum.
I am speaking at the Open World Forum (OWF) in Paris on Oct 1, 2010. I am also a judge in the OWF Open Innovation Demo Cup. Be sure to submit your project before July 31 for consideration.
2010-10-05 London CRM Acceleration.
SugarCRM will hold a CRM Acceleration in London on October 5, 2010.
2010-10-21 Munich CRM Acceleration.
SugarCRM will hold a CRM Acceleration in Munich on October 21, 2010.
2010-10-25 Cap Gemini Open Your Mind.
I'm speaking in the Netherlands at Open Your Mind, an event sponsored by Cap Gemini on Open Source.

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Chris DiBona
Chris is a just plain great person and stand-up guy. He's also the Open Source program manager at Google.
Doc Searls
Doc is the senior editor at Linux Journal and one of the four authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto, the iconoclastic web site that became the best-selling book.
Matt Asay
Matt is the founder of OSBC, and currently runs business development at Alfresco.
r0ml Lefkowitz
The r0ml is one of the most entertaining and insightful commentators on the state of the IT industry that I know.
Stephen Walli
I first met Stephen when he worked at Microsoft, and I organized a dinner at OSCON between Eric Raymond and a number of the Microsoft Shared Source team. I liked him even then so that should tell you a lot.

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