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Thought some on the list who are interested in Linux and open trading
software might find this interesting. This was sent to me courtesy of
Ralph Brunet.
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Tuesday November 17 3:06 PM ET
Open software group plans big event
SAN FRANCISCO (Wired) - As commercial software vendors get their
manic day in the sun at the gargantuan Comdex convention this week,
developers who provide alternatives to commercial software got a
little conference of their own.
O'Reilly & Associates announced a new conference dedicated to
developers of open-source software. Open-source software comes from a
collaborative, often worldwide, band of developers contributing their
programming expertise over the Net.
Open-source advocates say quick response to customer needs and open
code are among the benefits of their approach, in marked contrast to
a single company controlling the design of the product.
Various open-source operating systems and Internet software programs
have recently made strides in presenting a viable alternative to
commercial products such as Microsoft's Windows NT operating system.
Most notably, Intel and Netscape invested in Red Hat, a distributor
of the open-source operating system Linux.
The O'Reilly Open Source Conferences will let developers of such
software as the Perl scripting language, the Apache Web server, and
Linux gather and learn from each other in technical sessions
presented by key developers of each technology.
``We just found that there is a lot of crossover with these
technologies,'' said O'Reilly & Associates spokeswoman Sara Winge.
``They fit together and a lot of people use more than one. So why not
have a conference?''
The first one will be held August 21-24, 1999 at the convention
center in Monterey, Calif. Two other open-source software projects,
the FreeBSD operating system and the Sendmail email server software,
will also be covered by the conference.
While there will be content for newcomers to open source, the
conferences will be very ``high end,'' Winge said. ``We really focus
on what's most important about the technology, and we get pretty deep.''
Open-source software users and developers do much of their
collaboration over the Net-through email and Web sites-so the
conferences for many will be a first-time, face-to-face gathering.
``When we had first Perl conference in 1997, it was the first time
developers met each other face to face.... It was nice-there was a
great energy.''
O'Reilly & Associates hosted the Open Source Summit that brought
together the creators of Linux, Perl, Apache, Sendmail, Tcl, Python,
and Netscape's Mozilla.
Among open-source players supporting O'Reilly's announcement was Bob
Young, CEO of Red Hat Software, and Greg Olson, CEO of Sendmail Inc.
``O'Reilly is the natural group to pull the open-source community
together around a conference,'' Olson said in a statement.
(Reuters/Wired)
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