On September 12-14, 2004, leaders in industry, government, and academia came together for an interactive conference designed to explore the promises and challenges of open source. This unique event focused on identifying potential solutions for strengthening open source along with high level strategies for its adoption, implementation, and market growth. Specially invited participants met to examine the use and practice problems confronting open source with a goal of beginning to resolve these issues. The conference provided a unique opportunity to exchange ideas with decision-makers from the buyer, vendor, and legislative sides. At the conference conclusion, participants walked away with sane and rational solutions that can be implemented to arrive at a manageable compromise in maximizing software utility.

The conference focused on four key areas:

• Business Risk and Exposure in Open Source Utilization
• The Open Standards Deficit in Open Source: Problems in IP Management, Stability, and Market Growth
• Implications for Open Source Adoption
• Strengthening Open Source: Consideration of Alternative Solutions

“The next big battleground between the Open Source and proprietary software communities will be in the area of Open Standards. You need Open Standards to implement Open Source. However this need not be a battle.”

–Larry Rosen, Rosenlaw.com, LLC

Participants Attended to:

• Experience a unique opportunity to interact with leaders in open source, information and communications technology (ICT), government, and academia—along with open source users—to facilitate collaboration opportunities and exchange ideas and best practices
• Listen to and participate in balanced discussions and potential solutions on the debate over open source vs. proprietary software to gain knowledge that will facilitate better software decisions
• Identify key strategic issues and potential consequences of current and impending legislative and punitive measures promoted by software companies that wish to secure their proprietary developments from competitive threats
• Walk away with viable solutions for addressing open source challenges both in the market and in your own company

“Open source software and open standards go together. This conference is of vital importance to all IT managers."

— Don Becker, Linux developer and
author of Beowulf Clustering

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