Looking back, it is almost shocking how far we have come as an industry with respect to open source in such a short time.  Moving from community-led to company-led open source -- from VCs and entrepreneurs looking to bring open source benefits to enterprises to today's open source adoption in every vertical market.

The more open source grows, the more it grows affiliated open source.  What are the implications for enterprise IT in a world where open source co-exists with existing IT infrastructure, networking, applications and services?

Presentations and panel discussions in OSBC's fifth year explored how both traditional and non-traditional open source businesses are achieving benefits from platform flexibility and better performance to cost savings.

Over the course of two days, keynotes from the best and brightest IT minds -- spanning the open source big guns to Web 2.0 to mission-critical operations -- previewed the future of open source.  Plus, our staple sessions helped open source projects discover customer-friendly business strategies and enable legal professionals to assist in their clients' adoption of open source.