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05/22/2007, 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Moderator:
Andrew Aitken, Founder and Managing Partner, Olliance Group.
Speakers:
Niel Armstrong, VP, Information Technology, Activision.
Tim Golden, Senior VP, Bank of America.
Jason Maynard, Global Director, Equity Research Software, Credit Suisse.
Mike Olson, Vice President, Embedded Technologies, Oracle Corporation.
Raven Zachary, Research Director, Open Source, The 451 Group.
As open source continues to mature and grow in its commercial impact the inevitable collision of open source and proprietary interests is happening. Are the recent and 2006 announcements by such premier proprietary stalwarts as Microsoft, Oracle, Motorola, Adobe, etc., the first response in a tidal wave of proprietary vendors' responses? As proprietary vendors react to open source's impact on their revenues, how will open source companies respond? Which proprietary vendors "get it"? Will this trend precede an industry consolidation? And what is the impact on the IT buyer? These are just a few of the questions we'll examine during this panel.
In this panel we bring together a number of leading open source business experts to discuss the market and economic impact of open source on the proprietary software industry.
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