Welcome!

Check out LinuxAsia 2005's conference program - now posted online here.

This workshop will feature on how-to build and deploy a 64-bit white box solutions with Linux and Opteron hardware and demonstrate performance gains seen in such a platform.

The instructor Mr. Manoj David is Server Alliance Manager at AMD India in Bangalore. He has been in the server industry for more than 8 years and has extensive experience in building blocks for the server industries in the Asia-Pac and European markets.

Registration is required! Access is FREE to Conference Pass holders. Limited seating available.

Check out details here.

Cadence Design Systems is a leading supplier of EDA technologies and engineering services across the globe. Cadence helps its customers break through electronics design challenges by providing a new generation of electronic design solutions that facilitate speedy development of advanced IC and system designs. Cadence is fast expanding its operations in India and is looking for top quality talent.

Welcome Cadence!

The Indian chapter of SNIA has joined the elite list of LinuxAsia 2005 sponsors. SNIA is a global body dedicated to ensuring that storage networks become complete and trusted solutions across the IT community.

Welcome SNIA!

LinuxAsia welcomes Virtusa Corp. as 'Industry Sponsor'. Virtusa prides its unique 'Productisation' methodology that enables its clients to lower their total cost of ownership and revenue generation.

Welcome Virtusa!

Mumbai-based Sundyne Technologies will be the 'Registration Sponsor' for LinuxAsia 2005. Sundyne will use the registration desk at LinuxAsia to demonstrate their thin client solutions which can reduce total cost of ownership for the enterprise by bringing down administration and maintenance costs.

Welcome Sundyne!

LinuxAsia welcomes Novell as a Platinum sponsor! Novell embraces the open source movement with top products and support. Novell offers SUSE Linux and Evolution as key components of its Linux strategy.

Welcome Novell!

LinuxAsia welcomes Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik. Mr. Szulik will be delivering a keynote address on February 9th. Matthew is passionate about improving the educational opportunities for students worldwide through open source, and is a visionary on OSS and its benefits for all players in industry, government, and education.

LinuxAsia 2005 welcomes Dr. S. Sadagopan, Director of IIIT Bangalore as a keynote speaker. Prof. Sadagopan, one of India's foremost thinkers, is the founder and Director of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. Professor Sadagopan got his Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Madras University in 1973, and his Master's and Doctoral degree at Purdue University before returning to India to teach at IIT, Kanpur. He writes extensively on IT and its impact on society.

Dr. Deepak Phatak, Nilekani Chair Professor, School of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, will deliver the first keynote of LinuxAsia on February 9th, 2005. Dr. Phatak's vision is to see a resurgent India catching up with the world using Information Technology as the spring board. He hopes to make Linux and Open Source work for millions of Indians.

Dr. Phatak's keynote will be on "Open Source - An action agenda for developing economies."

LinuxAsia welcomes Intel as a Platinum sponsor with key technology and speakers at the conference. Intel is the worldwide leader in supplying the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks.

Welcome Intel!

LinuxAsia welcomes BakBone Software as the Storage co-sponsor. BakBone Software is an international storage management software company that develops and globally distributes high-performance software solutions to the network storage and open systems markets. BakBone's suite of near-line archival and backup/restore software in Linux provides scalable data protection from the workgroup to the enterprise. Welcome BakBone!

LinuxAsia welcomes Red Hat as CXO Sponsor and CEO Matthew Szulik.

Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making high-quality, low-cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides operating system platforms along with middleware, applications, and management solutions, as well as support, training, and consulting services to customers worldwide and through top-tier partnerships.

LinuxAsia welcomes IBM as the Diamond sponsor! IBM is a global leader in the invention, development and manufacture of the IT industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, storage systems, microelectronics and Linux.

Welcome IBM!

LinuxAsia is proud to announce C-DAC as the Government Sponsor for High Performance Computing (HPC) and Grids. The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is well-known as the inventor of India's indigenous supercomputing cluster - the PARAM series.

CollabNet will be conducting a technical tutorial on Subversion on February 11th, 930am to 130pm. Learn about the world's best free and open source software version control system. Highlights include introduction by Brian Behlendorf, co-founder of Collabnet and Apache guru and tutorial.

David Axmark, MySQL co-founder and vice president of Open Source Relations will be keynoting and presenting at LinuxAsia 2005. David was involved with the MySQL database well before it had a name. Interested in free software since the early '80s, David is committed to developing a successful business model through Open Source software.

Brian Behlendorf, co-founder of CollabNet and Apache guru will be keynoting and presenting at LinuxAsia. Brian was at LinuxAsia last time also and was greatly appreciated by packed audiences at his talks.

The LinuxAsia conference program overview is available here. This program lists the sessions, topics covered and tentative schedule. Talk details will only be posted once finalised next month. Keynote speakers will be announced shortly.

Delegate registration is now open for LinuxAsia. Check out the program overview and register early to save money. See you at the conference.

The conference and expo on Linux and OSS will be held in New Delhi at the India Habitat Centre from February 9-11. Please mark your calendars to attend, network and learn about the latest trends, technology and solutions. Keep checking this space as more details get added.