ApacheCon US 2009 Session

Panel: The Business of Open Source - Power, Prestige, and Propulsion

• Sally Khudairi
• Wed, 04 November 2009 11:00
• No Materials Available

The ApacheCon Business Track has expanded over the past eight conferences, addressing an array of key business, marketing and legal/licensing issues in Open Source. Our panel of influencers --Hewlett-Packard's Scott Lamons, Progress Software's Debbie Moynihan, Microsoft's Sandy Gupta, and RedMonk's Michael Coté-- will answer your questions on The Business of Open Source, that includes customer requirements, application opportunities, deployment challenges, best practices, product development, standards compliance, business model disruptors, and more. Moderator Sally Khudairi will create a lively, interactive dialogue by inviting comments from the audience throughout the 50-minute session.

About the Panelists:

- Debbie Moynihan, director of Progress Software's FUSE Community.

- Michael Coté analyzes myriad technologies at Open Source-focused analyst firm RedMonk.

- Scott Lamons is responsible for running HP's Open Source review process and working with partners, such as Apache, in the Open Source Community. A big part of his role includes working with various product teams from across HP, from small home media servers to the largest enterprise applications. He also serves as the main focal point and champion for HP's sponsorship of the ASF and Apachecon and continues to encourage HP teams to get involved and contribute to the Apache community.

- Sandy Gupta is the Director of the Platform Strategy Team in Microsoft's Server and Tools organization, where he leads strategic initiatives for the Server platform. Sandy's primary focus is to drive Mission Critical workloads on Windows Server and also enable key Open Source software like Java, AMQP, Linux/Unix virtualized guests, and others on the Windows Server and Virtualization platform by working together with Microsoft development teams, strategic partners and open source communities. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2008, Sandy spent more than 16 years in the Unix industry, starting his career as developer for Unix kernel and device drivers at ICL. Subsequently Sandy worked as a senior executive at other Unix companies, where he drove their technology architectures and product roadmaps. Sandy holds a Bachelor Degree of Computer Engineering from the University of Delhi and is an alumni of Kellogg School of Management.