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TiE-Pittsburgh Event
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"Open Source Summit"
Sponsored by
TiE
(The IndUS Entrepreneurs)
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Information Week, thoughtform design, TimeSys and IBM
Thursday, February 15, 2007
6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
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Venue:
The Lexus Club at PNC Park
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How is the Open Source movement changing the rules of the game for everyone in the software marketplace? This forum—
designed especially for senior business and IT executives, independent software vendors, and IT consultants-will explore
the strategies and economics of open source software.
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Keynote Speaker— Ray Lane:
Ray Lane is General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, focused on helping
entrepreneurs with technological and market insight, organizational development,
team building, selling, and managing
growth. Since joining KPCB, Ray has sponsored several investments for the firm aimed at improving enterprise productivity. He sits on the boards of Elance, Metamatrix, Visible Path, Xsigo Systems, SpikeSource and PodShow. He also serves on one public board, Quest Software. Before joining
KPCB, Ray was President and Chief Operating Officer of Oracle Corporation, the second-largest software company in the world and the leading enterprise software and services company. During his eight-year tenure, Oracle exhibited phenomenal sales growth, from approximately $1 billion in 1992 to its current annual revenue of $10 billion. Ray led Oracle’s business expansion beyond its core database technology
into enterprise applications and professional services.
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Panel Discussion:
Four industry experts will lead a discussion on key open source topics:
- Chris Dibona of Google will address how Google has leveraged open source
- Dr. Tom Jones of Tolven, Inc. will address open source initiatives in healthcare
- John Soat of Information Week will address open source trends and adoption
- Susan P. Altman of K&L Gates will address licensing and legalities of open source
- Prashant Pandya of IBM will will give an overview of SCA and the Apache Tuscany project
Other topics will include Microsoft vs. the open source software, open source
development model, support for open source products, and legal issues including
GPL, LGPL, and Copy Left licensing.
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Moderator:
Ravi Koka, Founder and CTO of SEEC, Inc.
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