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Open Source Business Conference

By prooney24 March 25, 2008, 4:10 PM PDT

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Open Source Business Conference

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst

Jim Whitehurst reflects on his first 90 days in office, says Linux company has not been good leader in industry or getting enterprises involved in community development

Open Source Business Conference

Future of Open Source panel

Future of Open Source panel

From L to R; Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth; Ingres CEO Roger Burkhardt; SugarCRM Chair and CEO John Roberts; MySQL EVP Zack Urlocker; Acquia VP Jeff Whatcott and host Michael Skok, general partner of North Bridge Venture Partners

Open Source Business Conference

MySQL EVP Zack Urlocker

Open Source Business Conference

Ubuntu Linux and Microsoft execs

Ubuntu Linux and Microsoft execs

Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth, left, and Microsoft Chief IP Attorney Brad Smith discuss parallels and differences of open source and proprietary business models at end of day panel

Open Source Business Conference

Mark Shuttleworth jokes with Microsoft IP Chief Brad Smith that downloading Vista SP1 is like installing “airbags in a car.”

Open Source Business Conference

Springsource COO Neelan Choksi

Springsource COO Neelan Choksi

Open source companies should take note of Microsoft’s developer marketing programs and traditional marketing prowess

Open Source Business Conference

OSBC party

OSBC party

SugarCRM sail party on the bay

Open Source Business Conference

OSBC party

OSBC party

SugarCRM Chair and CEO John Roberts, 3rd from left, hosts OSBC party aboard catamaran in San Francisco Bay Monday night

Open Source Business Conference

Knowledge Tree CEO Daniel Chalef Knowledge Tree Live is expected to launch within next few weeks. On demand open source document management SaaS is aimed at SMBs

Open Source Business Conference

Alfresco Services Director Jean Barmash

Open Source Business Conference

Alfresco VP Matt Asay opened OSBC noting that VCs invested $2 billion in open source firms and in a year it was returned with purchase of MySQL for $1 billion, Zimbra for $350 million, Xen for $500 million and Trolltech for $150 million.

Open Source Business Conference

Linux Foundation Exec Director Jim Zemlin and Microsoft Linux & Interop Director Sam Ramji exchange kudos at OSBC

Open Source Business Conference

Oracle VP Ken Jacobs

Oracle VP Ken Jacobs

“We’re not purely Machiavellian .. I love open source.” Oracle dominates in $18 billion proprietray databas market, MySQL leads in $150 million open source dbase market

Open Source Business Conference

Ubuntu Mark Shuttleworth said launch of “Hardy Heron” in April is most significant product launch in company history

Open Source Business Conference

Shuttleworth chats with OSBC attendees

Open Source Business Conference

Mark Shuttleworth

Mark Shuttleworth

“Linux will be at the heart of the cloud and mobile devices.”

Open Source Business Conference

Microsoft bash?

Microsoft bash?

From left to right; RedMonk analyst Stephen O’Grady; Gesmer Updegrove partner Andrew Updegrove; and SteeleEye Technology CTO James Bottomly drill Microsoft’s Brad Smith about its interop and open source plans. Shuttleworth to far left

Open Source Business Conference

Microsoft's Smith

Microsoft's Smith

Microsoft is making moves to interoperability. At OSBC, Microsoft announced publication of 600 pages of documentation for XAML specification

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