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What's Next
Sessions highlighting emerging trends, opportunities, and strategies for the open source company, with an emphasis on open source's 'Third Wave': applications.

02/14/2006Session CodeSession Title
8:45 AM - 9:00 AMWelcome and Opening Remarks
2:00 PM - 2:50 PMStacking the Enterprise Deck: The Rise of LAMP/J and Its Implications for Enterprise Infrastructure
3:00 PM - 3:50 PMMarketing to Dilbert: Marketing Methodologies for the Open Source Crowd
4:00 PM - 4:50 PMPitching the CIO: Alfresco, LucidEra, Zmanda
5:30 PM - 6:30 PMBeyond Open Source: The Future of Collaboration and the New Knowledge Commons
02/15/2006Session CodeSession Title
8:45 AM - 9:00 AMWelcome and Opening Remarks
9:45 AM - 10:15 AMFree Markets in Software
10:45 AM - 11:15 AMCommercial Open Source: The Project-powered Enterprise
11:30 AM - 12:00 PMTechnology and Decentralization
3:15 PM - 4:00 PMCan a Leopard Change Its Spots? The Long Road from Proprietary to Open
4:10 PM - 5:00 PMHerding Cats or Riding the Lightning? Collaborating with Open Communities to Build a Business

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What's Now
Sessions that address current strategic issues around enterprise adoption of open source, including the thorny issue of building communities to distribute and develop open source projects.

02/14/2006Session CodeSession Title
8:45 AM - 9:00 AMWelcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 AM - 9:30 AMOpen Source: Moving Beyond Just Software
9:45 AM - 10:15 AMCoopetition: The Software Business Strategy for Capitalists
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMOpen Source and the Utility Revolution
2:00 PM - 2:50 PMMalignant, Benign, or Beneficial? The Effects of Commercialization on Open Source Production
3:00 PM - 3:50 PMCrossfire: CXOs on the Hotseat
4:00 PM - 4:50 PMThe Open Source Community Imperative: Methodologies, Mechanics, and Metrics
02/15/2006Session CodeSession Title
8:45 AM - 9:00 AMWelcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 AM - 9:30 AMFrom Open Source to Open Models
3:15 PM - 4:00 PMSupporting Disparate Communities: How to Tap Open Source for Support
4:10 PM - 5:00 PMOpen Source Software and Standards Revisited

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What's Legal
Sessions illuminating the complex legal issues undergirding open source software, from patents to dual licensing to corporate review boards to GPL 3.0 and beyond.

02/14/2006Session CodeSession Title
8:45 AM - 9:00 AMWelcome and Opening Remarks
2:00 PM - 2:50 PMGPL 3.0: Progress and Process
3:00 PM - 3:50 PMDual Licensing Models: Tricks of the Trade
4:00 PM - 4:50 PMEstablishing the Legal Foundation for Open Source Community Participation
02/15/2006Session CodeSession Title
8:45 AM - 9:00 AMWelcome and Opening Remarks
2:00 PM - 3:00 PMThe Closing World and Open Source: Coexistence Possible?
3:15 PM - 4:00 PMHow Much is Open Source Worth? The Impact of Open Source on Technology Licensing and M&A Activity
4:10 PM - 5:00 PMBest of Both Worlds: Real-world Examples of Mixing Open and Closed Software

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What's Starting
The place to find today's most promising early stage startups, most of which will be seen at OSBC for the first time.

02/14/2006Session CodeSession Title
8:45 AM - 9:00 AMWelcome and Opening Remarks
9:30 AM - 9:35 AMDEMO: Alfresco
9:35 AM - 9:40 AMDEMO: SugarCRM
9:40 AM - 9:45 AMDEMO: Project.Net
10:15 AM - 10:20 AMDEMO: Pentaho
10:20 AM - 10:25 AMDEMO: rPath
10:25 AM - 10:30 AMDEMO: EnterpriseDB
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM789Test
02/15/2006Session CodeSession Title
8:45 AM - 9:00 AMWelcome and Opening Remarks
9:30 AM - 9:35 AMDEMO: JasperSoft
9:35 AM - 9:40 AMDEMO: Realm Systems
9:40 AM - 9:45 AMDEMO: GroundWork
11:15 AM - 11:20 AMDEMO: Zmanda
11:20 AM - 11:25 AMDEMO: Scalix
11:25 AM - 11:30 AMDEMO: Funambol

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