The Linux Foundation Reveals Speaker Line-up for 2nd Annual Collaboration Summit

Kernel developers, leading market research firm and companies such as Dell, HP, IBM, MySQL, and Oracle will debate growth opportunities for the platformSAN FRANCISCO – March 11, 2008  The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the speakers for its 2nd Annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit.

The Summit, heralded as the only place where Linux kernel developers, distribution and system vendors, ISVs, and end users meet face-to-face and collaborate, takes place April 8 – 10, 2008 at the UT Super Computing Center in Austin, TX.

The Collaboration Summit is designed to accelerate collaboration and problem solving in the Linux community by bringing key stakeholders together in a neutral setting. While there are a variety of industry and developer conferences, the LF Collaboration Summit is the only one to combine participation from developers, users, vendors, ISVs, attorneys and C-level executives to tackle the most pressing issues facing Linux.
To apply for registration, please visit: https://www.linux-foundation.org/events/collaboration.

Last year’s over-subscribed Summit took place June 13- 15, 2007 at the Google Mountain View Campus and included more than 230 leaders from the Linux community.

Agenda highlights for the 2nd Annual LF Collaboration Summit include:

 Fresh from his $1 billion acquisition by Sun, MySQL’s CEO Marten Mickos will describe his plans for the future, including MySQL’s commitment to the “L in the LAMP†stack.

 Where is Linux growing? Al Gillen, research vice president at analyst firm IDC, will unveil important new data on Linux deployments worldwide.

 Kernel Developer Panel. The Summit will be kicked off by a panel of key Kernel developers and maintainers including James Bottomley, Jonathan Corbet, Dave Jones, Christoph Lameter, Ted Ts’o, Chris Wright, and others. This is a unique opportunity to hear directly from these developers.

 Mobile Landscape. The last twelve months have seen an explosion in Linux on mobile devices. Executive representatives from LiMO, Moblin.org, the new Open Handset Alliance and OpenMoko will address fragmentation and how they’re working together to build the future’s mobile computing platform.

 In the last year, there has also been tremendous growth of Linux pre-installed on desktop and ultra-mobile devices. This market is continuing to explode with dozens of design wins. Find out now what is behind this growing trend from senior representatives from Dell, Everex, gOS (maker of the CloudBook), HP, Lenovo, and VIA Technologies.

 The titans of the Linux industry are growing products and service offerings on top of Linux. The 451 Group’s Raven Zachary will moderate a panel of these influential industry leaders including: Wim Coekaerts, vice president of Linux engineering at Oracle; Dan Frye, vice president of open systems development at IBM; Christine Martino, HP’s vice president of open source and Linux; and Christy Wyatt, vice president, ecosystem and market development for Motorola’s Mobile Devices business. They will share what Linux means to their companies and where it’s headed.

 Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens will give a keynote address on the future of Linux from Red Hat’s perspective.

“This year’s LF Collaboration Summit has attracted a veritable who’s who of Linux leaders,†said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “We’re looking forward to a packed house and a lively group. These people will be defining the agenda for the next stage of mass collaboration, and in order to fuel that collaboration we need to make participation in the Linux ecosystem as easy and efficient as possible.â€Â

This unique, invitation-only event brings together the brightest minds
in the Linux ecosystem to collaborate on the advancement of the Linux platform. In addition to plenary sessions, workgroup and breakout sessions include: Desktop Architects, the Virtualization Mini-Summit, Mobile and Embedded Linux, Power Management on Linux and Carrier Grade Linux. All of the key players necessary to make real and immediate contributions to the platform will be in attendance.

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by providing unified resources and services needed for open source to successfully compete with closed platforms. For more information, please visit www.linux-foundation.org.

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